
It includes new aerospace movement, combat and advanced aerospace unit construction rules, as well as comprehensive maintenance, salvage, repair and customization rules. Strategic Operations is the one-source rulebook for advanced rules aerospace assets that open the entire conquest of a solar system. Yet the war for a star system is more than a single battle and a commander that utilizes his supplies and personnel with skill will survive the numerous battles to come. New aerospace tactics will allow you to gain air supremacy to match your grasp of ground tactics.

Liftoff planet and conquer an entire solar system! Deploy kilometer-long WarShips as escorts, first for JumpShips bridging the gulf between stars, then for detaching DropShips that burn in system to drop troops onto any battlefield. Later that year a fourth printing was released for the "Year of the Mercenary." It was published by Catalyst Game Labs and has a total of 424 pages in the book. This books publish date is and it has a suggested retail price of 49.99. This particular edition is in a Hardcover format. In keeping with the vintage cover theme, the artwork for the AeroTech box was reused. The title of this book is Battletech Strategic Operations and it was written by Catalyst Game Labs.

In 2021 a third printing was released which removed strategic level rules, commonly referred to as BattleForce, and consolidated them in Interstellar Operations: BattleForce. Previously released as Strategic Operations, it had two printings.
