‘Ender’s Game’ and Maneuver Warfare

From "War is Boring" blog at Medium.com:

In the mid-1980s a theory of warfare gained new prominence. The idea is to avoid large force-on-force attacks, use speed instead of firepower and strike at the enemy’s vulnerabilities. Proponents describe it as fighting smart. You attack the enemy’s thinking, forcing on him an unending chain of hard choices.

Practiced sporadically in ancient times, used heavily in World War II and still practiced today, it’s called “maneuver warfare.”

At the same time the concept was gaining new popularity, an award-winning military science fiction novel was released. Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game is now a sci-fi classic.

By some strange, serendipitous coincidence, Ender’s Game is the best book on maneuver warfare ever written—and a contemporary of the theory’s renewed prominence. If you've ever read the novel, you've been exposed to some pretty smart ideas for waging war.

This Sci-Fi story was so well thought of, that the US Marine Corps adding it to their recommended