Colonel Francis W. Killebrand was a commissioned officer in the COG Army during the Pendulum Wars and the early days of the Locust War. Aggressive, stubborn, and staunchly conservative, Killebrand believed that the Locust were dumb beasts, inferior to humans, and that humanity's situation post-E-Day was not due primarily to Locust strategic and tactical advantages or numerical superiority, but to cowardice, ineptitude, and an overeagerness to resort to extreme measures on the part of the COG and its soldiers. Killebrand advocated continuing the usage of strategies and tactics that had been proven effective during the Pendulum Wars, arguing that the Locust would not be defeated with new, unproven methods, but instead by tried and true COG military doctrine carried out by veteran soldiers an