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SOLVED. SF novel where corporations fight wars with weapons invented before 1900 and there is also a caste system with multiple lower, middle and upper levels like upper-middle, etc. [s]
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This is a Mack Reynolds story. Stand by while I find it.
Other parts of the environment was that the wars were heavily televised and there was a cult hero following of the soldiers in the war and therefore more success on the battlefront meant advancement in society.
I specifically also remember that the cast system was in nine (9) levels: lower-lower, lower-middle, lower-upper, middle-lower, middle-middle, middle-upper, upper-lower, upper-middle and upper-upper.
The protagonist of the story is a military officer fighting for one of the corporate armies who was born into one of the lower classes (can't remember which one) and was trying to move upwards through fame in battle.
The kicker of the story == SPOILER ==
is when the protagonist comes with the idea to use aerial reconnaissance and at first is challenged about this technology being invented after 1900, but he shows that as early as the US Civil War, aerial balloons had been used for battlefield observations.