It was something like stories or tales from the front. The "enemy" could not be communicated with. Many of the officer heroes were in their teens.
It was something like stories or tales from the front. The "enemy" could not be communicated with. Many of the officer heroes were in their teens.
You might be looking for Thinking Horndog's Swarm Universe. No stories named as you wanted, but the premise is that humans reach their majority at 14, are tested for ability to fight the Sa'arm, and if they reach a CAP of 6.5, they are allowed to volunteer to fight.
Here's a list of a few SciFi stories and series about warfare. Maybe what you're after is one of them:
Treaty Troops
https://storiesonline.net/s/42771/treaty-troops
Galactic Chronicles
https://storiesonline.net/series/970/galactic-chronicles
Alderian Wars
https://storiesonline.net/series/570/the-alderian-wars
That's all I can find with a category search that isn't immediately ruled out from their description.
Looking for something else, just found this. The middle item, the "Galactic Chronicles" series, no longer exists at that link. Anyone know who wrote it, where it went, etc?
-ZM
(A year ago I coulda asked Ernest. That won't work, now.)
The Galactic Chronicles is a huge universe from Vanessa Ravencroft. Sadly it won't be continued, Vanessa passed away in 2020.
There's a huge wiki on fandom.com with a lot of background information and dozens of maps and pictures.
The series became a "Universe" (appropriate for SF) with a new number and a misspelled name.
https://storiesonline.net/universe/1015/galacric-chronicles-universe
You've already indicated this is not what you're looking for, but in the interest of completeness: Gina Marie Wylie has two tales-from-the-war series. Both are now on Kindle and I think not available anywhere else, possibly excepting her personal site if she rewrites one. The "Kinsella" series eventually features a war with an unknown enemy that cannot be communicated with, among other things.
I think the early Kinsella stories were available here years and years ago.