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You ought really read everything Liddell Hart wrote. They are no nonsense literature, which is also very well written and easy to read. Because the technology will be different (seeing how you sai...
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You ought really read everything Liddell Hart wrote. They are no nonsense literature, which is also very well written and easy to read. Because the technology will be different (seeing how you said your fictional story takes place in the future) real strategy is what you'd be best off studying. For the equipment, anyone can go and read the latest scientific american and guess what kind of gear shall be around. (And most of it had been anticipated by Smith, Vogt, and Heinlein long ago ... ) Whatever anyone can do doesn't really pay. Creative use of strategy will allow you to build in great plot twists, which are understated and unexpected. Yet they have large impact as the story develops.