[My favorite comments from the TOP DoW]

You might try to explain what you mean. Most of the posts seem to acknowledge that the scenario as it is unfolding would happen.

[Surrenders]

I, too, am surprised by the high levels of morale in this war; it's actually a rather big change compared to earlier wars, where at this point in time entire alliances or even, in GW2, entire sides were surrendering.

Is it just boredom, or are our alliances that much better organised that all these members actually feel pride or obligation?

[Political Ramifications of the Techraid War]

Well, apart from the losing side bit I think you're quite correct; the middle and lower tiers are lost to our side, possibly, but the upper tier is still a contest, and IF it is won by our side, your analysis will miss a very crucial element... In some sense, that would render many of your points moot, even though the sheer loss of power below that tier is still going to be a crucial element of the post-war world.

[Justification for continuing the war]

To be quite frank, there's little point to signing peace when all it does make you go back to the trenches and just wait a week before you come out again.

[The Orange Civil War]

Huh?

We attacked C&G mostly because ODN joined them? No, the greater animosity is in any case between IRON and ODN, not TOP and ODN, and apart from that ODN is not and never has been the motivation for this war.

[The Techraid War: An Overview (International Newsweek, 23rd-30th Jan)]

nice summary

[Evolution of Warfare, Peace mode, Blitzes and more.]

amad: actually, I fully agree with you, except for one thing:

some alliances know how much money they have, and it reinforces your point; Matt Miller showed after karma just how meaningless the loss of infrastructure is with upper-tier warchests, and at this point in time warchests are on average only bigger.

However, the loss of cash due to nuclear anarchy collections is hardly so critical; at a rough cost in upper tiers of 10 million per day for such collection, that's not all that huge (essentially you lose an extra day of bills), and will indeed take weeks if not months to start counting for something.

Even so, it's still the best strategy there is for putting your enemies out of action, and those nations without adequate warchests will suffer VERY harshly.