Silverwall wrote:
More specificially because modern tank doctorine requires radio to co-ordinate on both a tactical and strategic level. German tanks in the invasion of France were inferior in guns and armour to the Allied tanks. BUT every single one had a radio in it and they had used that to evolve armoured division blitzkreig doctorine.
Also remember than this doctorine requires the use of airpower as a substitute for ground artillery if it is to succeed in neutralizing strong points. Towed artillery CANNOT keep up with advancing infantry and tanks which is a bitter lesson from WW1 and the main cause breakthroughs didn't happen then.
Along with logistics, communications is woefully overlooked by armchair strategists.
Up to now, the Safehold series has been a repeat of the technical advances of our history. The new books are going to have to create an alternative at least temporarily to exclude the detectable use of electricity. The new book has dirigibles with propellers. Are they powered by a Doble's type steam engine or by a diesel? If the engines are diesel, then there has to be advances to gear cutting, and oil extraction, oil refining, and oil transportation.
I think that the next series of books is going to be more fascinating than the previous books, because of the electricity alternatives. For each we will ask ourselves, could that really work? This is true for tanks, cars, trucks, planes, household refrigerators, central house heating, air conditioning, and communication.