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The movie is called Rise of Skywalker. Some sort of Star Wars fan film with a huge budget. You can tell they really liked the material but they got too caught up injecting their own original characters and stuff into the movies and while some of it was neat, overall it kind of detracted from the...

I'd just like to point out with a strict literal reading of the title of this thread, the topic has been artificially limited to ground forces responding to orbital or space based attackers. We never explored the use of ground forces IN space (ie interstellar) warfare. Well not technically...

I admire the participants of this thread giving more credence to numbers and scale then most popular SciFi authors.

The "And Screw Janeway" thing seems like the largest impediment to technological progress in this field of highly credible science. This is clearly not part of the Great Plan(tm).

That's actually a super neat way of looking at things. Plus you can think of campaigns like Rabaul, Okinawa and Iwo Jima and Peleliu or Tarawa etc where almost the entirety of the terrain was able to be targeted by naval gunfire (plus obviously air operations). The US Navy could literally pound...

Only with ground forces can you truly enjoy crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you and hearing the lamentations of their women effeminate members of their species. You can do all of these things from orbit yes, but watching it through a satellite or drone feedback isn't the same...

What is the ballpark ratio of Space Marine to Angry Futuristic Wastelanders that needs conquering?

One of the plus sides of Warhammer 40K is that it does sometimes try to feature the scale of galactic wide conflict. Isaac Arthur, the YouTuber mentioned in the starting OP, actually commented on that concept in one of his videos IIRC.