If there is such a thing as a military procedural as companion genre to police procedural, this is what Kratman writes. This is the third volume in the series but works equally well as a stand alone. The plotting is workmanlike, the characters acceptable for action genre, the place setting works. However the author's pet politics trip over his world building. One crack at green light bulbs is an amusing political aside. Multiple repetition including having plot points turn on them is just silly. A world where nothing is working as everything spirals down to barbarism is a world where someone someplace has an illegal factory making old fashioned light bulbs. This is scarcely cutting edge tech that only first world multinationals can produce. There are simply too many places where the world goes from working to not working and back to maintain my suspension of disbelief. IMO. YMMV. ( )