Questions tagged [warfare]
Use this tag for questions about engagement in or the activities involved in war or conflict, including about military structure, strategy, and particular battles.
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Transhumans, posthumans, and AI attacked by baseline humans
I read a novel in the last few months, that probably wasn't more than a few years old, in this novel "humanity" was composed composed of a majority of transhuman cyborgs in alliance with ...
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Book about an unmanned war machine inventor blackmailed into coding a backdoor into the software
With the advent of AI and the threat of AI-controlled battle, I recall reading a story about an inventor who gathered a team to build unmanned tanks. In the story, the lead programmer slowly goes ...
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Looking for a post nuclear war fiction book about a ship sent on a mission to continue the war
I am looking for a science fiction, post nuclear war, sea going warship based book I read in the late '80s or early '90s.
The book takes place on a stealth warship carrying nuclear missiles and ...
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Fantasy book about a besieged city
I'm looking for a book I've read in the late nineties, though I don't think it was new at that time.
It's fantasy book (orcs, sorcerers, etc.) chronicling the siege of a city. It starts when the city ...
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How can Mars compete with Earth economically or militarily?
I'm into third season now and apart from whole bunch of really, really stupid meme stuff (would use a different word, but...), which I can't peg as inattention to detail or sloppy writing, there is ...
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Novel or novella involving a protagonist who travels forward in time and encounters a strange war where the weapons were all color-coded
The main protagonist travels forward in time and encounters a strange war where the weapons were all color-coded. Like, fire weapons were red, etc. The time traveller might have eventually "...
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Humans lose an interstellar war against humorous-looking aliens [duplicate]
This is from an anthology, possibly from the 1950s.
The ambassador/general is delegated to a prisoner exchange on an isolated planet.
From the illustrations I recall the aliens look like short fat ...
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'The Needler' human alien war against the Soetti (sweaty)
This is a story from an anthology, I cannot recall the author but I may have first read it in the 1960's or 1970's.
The title actually refers to the protaganists superior, who charges him with solving ...
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Uninvolved, non-combatant world devastated by out-of-continuum bombs; seeks end to conflict
From the 70s or early 80s. Set on a world where deadly missiles wink into being, seemingly out of nowhere. They originate from a place, or places, where physical laws are wildly different: there a ...
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What are the logistics behind sending Jaegers into battle?
Logistics is an underrated aspect of warfare and many see it as the most important part about going to war. When the Nazis were making their way into the USSR and were forced to fight in the brutal ...
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Looking for an SF story where Lebanon was the UN's petri dish for war
This story is probably 30 years old. as best I recall, the UN has determined to not work towards eliminating internal strife in Lebanon (which arguably it could do), because they felt it was better to ...
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Short story about humans losing a space war due to having SUPERIOR technology [duplicate]
In the story, an officer describes an ongoing war between humans and aliens. The aliens have less advanced technology so they assume they will easily when. However, the officer remises on how much ...
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Were Malgalad/Amdír and Oropher both slain in the Battle of Dagorlad, or in two separate incidents?
It seems to be generally understood (see the Tolkien Gateway and LOTR wiki articles) that:
In the Battle of Dagorlad, Oropher's company fought valiantly but he
was slain with the greater part of ...
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Why would Craftworld Eldar fight Craftworld Eldar?
I've been talking with some people about difficult-to-justify 40k mirror matchups. After talking about Tyranids (doable thanks to, say, Hydra) or Tau (where Farsight gives a fine precedent) we got ...
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Sci-Fi short story: Side with the most advanced technology loses [duplicate]
Looking for an old sci-fi short story where the side with the most advanced technology loses because of unexpected side effects of their high tech.
The story is told from the perspective of the ...
