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Asteroids and aliens threaten Earth, yet our “defense” is a few telescopes, one underfunded office, and committee meetings, while rocks cruise and little green men wait in the wings. Bottom line: we’re marginally better than dinosaurs, but only if we stop dithering and actually fund real planetary defense.

Tanks have been the undisputed monarchs of the battlefield for over a century. Yet in conflicts from Ukraine’s open plains to Gaza’s urban labyrinths, cheap drones and precision-guided munitions have exposed glaring vulnerabilities. As thousands of armored vehicles fall to loitering munitions and long-range rockets, militaries worldwide are asking: are tanks worth the hefty price tag and logistical headache, or have they become glorified museum pieces?

Giant humanoid mechs look cool but are tactically indefensible; tall, fragile, and maintenance-heavy, they make easy targets in an age of long-range precision fire. Tanks and drones outperform them in durability, cost, and stealth. Instead, the near future lies with power armor and mixed human-AI teams; elite soldiers in exoskeletons commanding semi-autonomous drones, backed by remote fire support.

Rick Partlow’s Archangel kicks off the Archangel series with a rocket-assisted leap into powered armor warfare, black-ops politics, and transhuman morality. Partlow blends the pace of a modern shooter with themes pulled from Heinlein and Scalzi, military service, cybernetic identity, and the price of obedience.

Let’s be real: if your sci-fi squad isn’t hurtling through the sky in a duct-taped flying coffin, are you even fighting? Dropships are the mullets of military hardware—business in the front (troops), party in the back (explosions, mayhem, someone inevitably screaming “GO! GO! GO!”).