Reading this brings back childhood memories of reading Two Centuries of Warfare (Chant, Holmes, and Koenig). I think this is why I've always both been attracted to and deeply disappointed by RTS games. The resource gathering, materiel production, troop mobilisation, and supply aspects don't live up to the (perhaps unfairly expected) promise inherent in the name.

https://www.biblio.com/book/two-centuries-warfare-christophe...