Thoughts amidst the heatwave
Lots going on this (sweltering) weekend. Starting closest to home with the announcement from Jay at Fantasybookspot regarding three winners of signed copies of The Mirrored Heavens. My congrats to...
View ArticleMore human than human
” . . my concern goes to the development of humans as special weapons. Here is a virtually unlimited field which a few powers are now developing.” –Paul Muad’dib in DUNE MESSIAH One of the aspects of...
View ArticleA Theory of Space-Centric Warfare: Part One
The revolution in military strategy that the arming of the heavens heralded extended to every arena of warfare. By the 2020s, it was already accepted as axiomatic that whoever controlled space would...
View ArticleA Theory of Space-Centric Warfare: Part Two (Earth Orbits)
(For Part One of this essay, click here.) Of all orbits, the geostationary are the most valuable, with the rest of the geosynchronous orbits running a close second. Across the 21st century, they had...
View ArticleSpace-Centric Warfare, Part Three: The Moon and the Libration Points
Further out in space, the Americans held a considerable advantage: until the Zurich Treaty, they enjoyed a monopoly on the Earth’s only natural satellite. They also controlled L2 (the libration point...
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Space-Centric Warfare, Part Four: Naval Combat
(For Part One of this essay, click HERE.) All of the attention upon space left the leaders of the non-space services scrambling to assert the significance of their own theaters (though they hedged...
View ArticleSpace-Centric Warfare, Part Five: Underwater Combat
(To start reading from the beginning of this essay, click HERE. And by the way, Happy 4th.) Though the Eurasians possessed no equivalent to the Raft, their own navies didn’t lack for funding. This was...
View ArticleNukes: the third generation
Do you realize just how little info there is out there on third generation nukes? It’s a crying shame. Federation of American Scientists even highlights information on fourth generation nukes without...
View ArticleWhen your gun says no
I don’t know what’s cooler, a story about black box guns, or the fact that the title namechecks Judge Dredd. But what I do know is this. Eventually there will be three types of guns: 1. Legacy guns...
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