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Gwern Branwen has a well-researched essay about more realistic space warfare: http://www.gwern.net/Colder%20Wars http://www.gwern.net/Colder%20Wars . His main c
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Gwern Branwen has a well-researched essay about more realistic space warfare: http://www.gwern.net/Colder%20Wars http://www.gwern.net/Colder%20Wars . His main conclusions are that planets have overpowered detection and defense capabilities against ships, but are underpowered against asteroids flung at relativistic speeds.