![]() Will also produce very large energy collectors and Increased strength, decreased weight, and various Space industrialization will produce radically new materials that will have military implications in terms of Space industrialization will produce new and lessĮxpensive space transportation systems. New problems of defense and military operations. One of these is new technology that will create Two areas of concern and interest to military planners in the next thirty to fifty years. But most of it is still true.) The Third Industrial Revolution is going to create (ed note: This article was written in 1979 and is admittedly a little dated. Frisbee's essay on Designing Militaries, Future War Stories essay on things that military science fiction are constantly getting wrong, and Thomas Evans' The Problem with Military Science Fiction Part 1 and Part 2 Specifically for the topic of astromilitiares, you should look over Mr. It will take you a long time to read through the many essays and entries, but it will be worth it. Both are almost the equivalent of college-level courses in the subject. Frisbee Jr.'s Tips on Writing Military SF and William's Future War Stories. Two on-line resources I recommend are William S. There will be a "space army", which are usually just the old ground army troops ferried to combat zones on other planets on huge lightly armed troop carriers. They are generally elite fighters, since spacecraft usually can only carry a limited number of them. There will be "space marines", who generally are found on board combat spacecraft. There will generally be something like a "space navy" who deal in combat spacecraft (with a sub-branch for space fighters, even though those are unlikely). Their solution is diversifying their mission to include performing assaults on Luna and Mars. Navy space warfare pin series#In William Keith's Galactic Marines series one of the themes of the early novels is how the US Marines fight being absorbed or eliminated. Some may grow large enough to absorb other branches of the military, others may be reabsorbed into other branches. Some may start out as a subdivision of an existing branch and eventually grow large enough to split off (such as how the US Army Air Corps spit off to become the US Air Force in 1947 ). Which naturally leads to questions about the space branch of the military of various nations. This is just the natural continuation of the process of militarisation of space Yes, there are a few non-combat stories, mostly about exploration, but space combat is here to stay. Not to mention the occasional starship marine assault trying to board a hostile ship while in flight. Among science fiction stories with space flight, the overwhelming majority are about combat, both between spacecraft and between futuristic ground troops. ![]()
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