There are many ideas being presented here, particularly the revelation that Earth is simply using its trooper resources as cannon-fodder to maintain an endless state of war, thus conflict, thus the use of an increasingly autocratic military-controlled government; though this strategy is suggested as a losing one in the first film, continuing it may nevertheless be seen as anti-military satire. No war was won in the first film; Earth forces merely earned a breakthrough insight into Klendathu tactics and organization; the ending of that film is clearly pro-government propaganda presented as an Earth triumph. Earth weapons actually DO seem to be more destructive to the Klendathu in 'Marauder', forcing the enemy to adapt by producing exploding soldiers. The war appears to be fought on only a few localized planets and planetary systems, suggesting it is hardly the existential conflict Earth forces claim it to be. Somehow I don't think this film series was meant to be a realistic military film series, nor do I think it was meant to be taken as seriously as you somehow seem to have taken it. To be fair, the third film suffers from a low budget, and visual effects of its day that are simply not comparable to the first film in its day.
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