Launched, after more examples were added.
No one's put any more effort into this in the last 11 days, and the last substantial addition to the content was almost two weeks ago; the argument appears to have been more important than the trope. It has just barely enough examples and categories to limp half-heartedly into the main namespace, but is it worth it? Please weigh in.
CC: @Labster, @GethN7, @Robkelk, @QuestionableSanity, @DocColress, @LulzKiller, @SelfCloak
No argument. You will just add something else to go back to square one again. So what's even the point, to either add or argue? Whatever.
I suspect we'd get more examples if somebody here was a military-fiction fan. However, if somebody here was a military-fiction fan, he or she likely would have weighed in already.
Maybe we should delete this one without prejudice, in case somebody who's willing to put in the work that a new trope deserves comes along later and re-creates it.
Jason seems like a good candidate -- maybe he's not noticed it?
Edit: Checked the history and confirmed he hadn't made any edits. So I went to his talk page and asked him to take a look. Maybe he'll be able to add something to save this candidate from deletion.
Regarding video games, I have nothing; because they're usually just focused on one war, anyways.
There might be example between the two Pacific Rim movies, but I never really watched the second one
There's also Cadia and Armageddon from Warhammer 40K, but this is something that I need to look into.
I'm not entirely sure if this will get a lot of examples. Because it's kind of hard to win a war by constantly fighting the same way and people are bound to catch onto this. Otherwise, it's an excuse for preserving resources, going by what I just written.
Okay, Jason's finally noticed my message, and came by to add a few things. What do people think? Ready to launch? (Yes, TBeholder, we know what you think. Please note that I went out of my way to recruit someone to help make this one launchable.)