Been watching this for a while, and I have to admit the best point I ever read about an 'Alien Invasion' was given by John Ringo: "Once a species "owns" the gravity well, there isn't much you can do about it." Its a good valid point, if anyone has the tech to get here, well... thats it. And it applies as much to the here and now, as it would in any sort of situation, be it a 1000 years ago or a 1000 years from now.
Despite a few certain other books he has written, Ringo's Posleen series is actually a pretty good riff on it, since he figured if there was any hope for humanity, there would have to be handicaps to the bad guys, and that we would have to have some sort of help from the 'good guys'. And it would all have to be logically consistent.
Just ignore the cover art: Baen books seems to miss (and miss big) more than hit when it comes to that sort of thing.
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