Military themed SciFi novels

[BryanM]

It's fun to read that essay in OGRE about small unmanned tanks being the ultimate form of ground control.

The depressing reality of reality is that it is not possible to have conventional "wars" between super powers any more. Everything will continue to be around the edges, pounding countries that can't fight back. Largely economic wars where defenseless places like Haiti and Burkina Faso are conquered and exploited. (Whenever you're told that Venezuela is the absolute worst place on the planet and needs our "help" by having us overthrow their government with our military (again), and install a right wing government that'll hand over all their stuff to Mr.Burns, that's an example of the propaganda arm working its magic.)

Automated and remote small scale kill systems certainly seem to be the future. The F-22 was a grotesque waste of money, while drones kill more people in a day than that program ever did or could. It must have been so humiliating being part of an F-22 bombing mission; a comical farce of bureaucratic box checking if I ever saw one. Other examples of corporate captured government contracts that go against basic engineering principles and common damn sense: the space shuttle, and shuttering the thorium research program.

Other depressing facts brought to us by science:

* If there is complex alien life on other planets, they're not going to have useless weird appendages, colors, or magical powers. Convergent evolution dictates that they'll resemble life here, mooshed around a bit by local gravity trends and oxygen supply.

* While hurling the Earth into the Sun seems like it would be a fun thing to do, it actually would require less energy to push it into Jupiter. There's something very ignoble about the idea of being torn apart by a nasty fart cloud instead of being melted down by a fusion reactor...

People really don't like science for a reason.

[BIL]

* While hurling the Earth into the Sun seems like it would be a fun thing to do, it actually would require less energy to push it into Jupiter. There's something very ignoble about the idea of being torn apart by a nasty fart cloud instead of being melted down by a fusion reactor...

Ash to ash, more like ASS 2 ASS MIRITE

[Stevens]

I'm reading his Stranger in a Strange Land presently.

Grabbed this out of a neighbor's "free" box ten minutes ago. It is number three on the queue behind 1Q84 and Kitchen Confidential.

[MintyTheCat]

I'm reading his Stranger in a Strange Land presently.

Grabbed this out of a neighbor's "free" box ten minutes ago. It is number three on the queue behind 1Q84 and Kitchen Confidential.

Good catch, my man! It's really nice when people offer books to people that they no longer need. I always give a donation to the charity shops when I buy from there.
I am still reading the Battletech book and it's not 'too' bad