[ What a curious question. He's not stupid enough to think he has the whole picture of Barrayar— the events of today have proven it. So he sticks to the textbook: ]

The Harmonian army is certainly strong enough to take on a small band of horsemen with no magic. Though I would think they'd try to take this camp by sabotage, not by brute force. [ That's what he would recommend doing, anyway. The established presence of outsiders in the camp would make infiltration fairly straightforward. ]

But we have been repelled by inferior forces with superior spirit before. We have nothing like Cetaganda. But you still plan on winning this war, right? [ He'll drink to that. ]