So War of the Worlds is like, what if the Martian version of Elon Musk planned an invasion of Earth?

You have like, 4th millennium tech including collimated fusion directed energy weapons (read Stephen Baxter’s sequel, “The Massacre of Mankind”. It’s really good), and yet you lose two of your assets to a TORPEDO RAM ironclad; a ship so tactically useless that they built one ever and then tried to forget about the whole thing …

… and then you half arse the prep for the advance landing party because the experts who told you that Earth’s microbiome will FUCKING DIGEST YOU if you don’t take precautions is too woke.

Yup. Can totally see how that could happen.