Logistics Based Strategy in Interplanetary Conflict

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Logistics-Based Strategy in Interplanetary Conflict is a roughly 130-page university thesis written by Winston Duarte when he was twenty. The plain pale-green booklet proposes a path for Mars to control Earth and the Belt without open war. It distinguishes occupation, influence, and economic necessity as strategies for controlling resources and calls occupation the least stable.

The thesis was not published, though it began Duarte's naval career. After his defection, intelligence services reconstructed his life in extreme detail, and Chrisjen Avasarala concluded that later analyses all return to the logic set down in this book. She gives a printed copy to Camina Drummer to demonstrate that Laconia's ruler has always thought through systems, supply, timing, and indirect control rather than impulse.

Appearance

A small rough-textured book of about 130 thin paper pages, bound in a pale-green cover with its title and Winston Duarte's name printed in a plain unadorned font.

Role

The thesis is the evidence through which Avasarala reframes Duarte from a distant coup leader into a disciplined strategist unlikely to overreach.

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