Strategy

Created Wednesday 23 June 2021

What did Marco say? "Nothing you do now will stop what's coming"

His attacks were brilliantly low-tech (and well done for a sci fi!)---but very well planned. It took his meteors months to reach their target (and that's probably fictionally fast). He had events planned out well in advance.

And so yeah: The preemptive attack usually wins. "The preemption bias" Like a Hägg: Getting there first and setting up the battlefield is a strong military advantage. Arguably this is a war in which the defensive is strong. Like WWI.

Every first "modern" war is shockingly hellish. (Afterall, among those who survive wars are those who can survive the horrors of war.) Technology (and thus terrain) have evolved into something no one yet can grasp the magnitude of. The generals don't know what they're doing, and the soldiers don't know what they're fighting against (they only know how to fight---their way, but very well). And the new terrain kills the most. Ask Nightingale. Things like dengue and scurvy aren't pleasant (we got lucky with quinine), and space is empty of mercy alone; everything else---literally everything else---it has. And usually a whole lot of it in a way that will kill you very precisely and hopefully quickly.

Yeah, the standard sigh-off of the times: "Quick death" May however whenever you die at least be quick. Because in spcae there're some pretty unpleasantly long ways to die.

"It's just bad luck for mates to split up."