OMG- somebody else that knows about that! I just re-read it; someone put it up on Pastebin. Napoleonic teddy bears. I loved how it challenged the assumption that 'we'll, they have FTL travel, so they must be undefeatable militarily'.
(raises a beer in salute)
No body ever thinks that we may be wildly advanced in a technological direction that a spacefaring alien race didn’t expect.
The road not taken altered my thinking forever.