"The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers I think the military science fiction milieu provides a great tool for forecasting and predicting possible conflict futures. It may be yet another tool to take this magnificent US 20th century fighting machine and make it a peer combat competitor in the 21st century. Speculative fiction provides a means to extrapolate what possible war fut...
