Yet the actual nature, extent, and duration of their activities [of the Sea Peoples] leave much room for doubt. The view that they were participant in a carefully planned military operation is not sustainable. Rather, they were a largely disorganized array of groups, who banded together from time to time in their wanderings and sometimes joined forces for raids and, on occasions, more extensive military operations. They may have had much of the character of the roving, marauding bands that are frequently depicted by science fiction writers in a post nuclear war environment.
(Trevor Bryce: Kingdom of the Hittites)
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