Back in NCO school, I had to read a ton of papers by mostly clueless theoreticians, prattling on about the "changing nature of modern warfare," and the need for the modern, post-Terran Commonwealth Defense Corps to be tooled and trained for "low-intensity colonial actions." In truth, warfare has changed very little since our great-great-grandfathers killed each other at places like Gettysburg, the Somme, Normandy, or Baghdad. It's still mostly about scared men with rifles charging into places de.