The Vixen War Bride

The Vixen War Bride by Thomas Doscher

Book 1 of the series. I don't think the title very good, actually. . . .

Captain Ben Gibson, and a fair number of his soldiers, are from a planet that had its entire population obliterated in a war with aliens that have fox tails and ears. Which war is now over, and he's part of the occupying forces. (There's a brief discussion of whether it's longer odds that they visited Earth, or we just happened to imagine creatures like them.)

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The future is a blank wall

The future is a blank wall on which every man can write his own name as large as he likes; the past I find already covered with illegible scribbles, such as Plato, Isaiah, Shakespeare, Michael Angelo, Napoleon. I can make the future as narrow as myself; the past is obliged to be as broad and turbulent as humanity.

― G.K. Chesterton