A comparative study of fictional warfare
The book will move beyond retelling individual universes and use selected fictional conflicts to compare recurring military problems across radically different settings.
The questions at its center
How do states build forces they can sustain? Why do tactically superior armies lose? How does technology alter doctrine without eliminating friction? What happens when political systems demand military outcomes their institutions cannot produce? How do occupation, insurgency, coalition warfare, deterrence, logistics, and command failure shape the wars that follow?
History that never happened, examined as though it did
The goal is a sustained work of military-historical analysis connecting fictional case studies to real questions about how armies, governments, and societies prepare for war, make decisions under pressure, and live with the consequences.