Books like Fitzpatrick's War

Creative tale following the career of a military officer from his time as a cadet and up the ranks, told in the larger context of the rise of a neo-Alexander the Great. The relationships and various military postings are reminiscent of W.E.B Griffin's Brotherhood of War series. Described as a steampunk sci-fi novel, but the book primarily focused on the war-mongering NeoAlex and his cult of personality and megalomania, with the corresponding moral dilemmas of his officers and former classmates as they gradually take over the world and kill millions. I do not recall ever reading from the steampunk genre, and I certainly cannot accurately describe it, so I cannot comment on how steampunky this book is. There was some machinery that operated on steam, but no lengthy discourses on the science of fictional steam technology. Steam: because world electricity was controlled by a group who eliminated it for the rest of the world with EMPs; breakdown of society; back to agrarian roots and feudal system, etc. etc. Controlling society called "Yukons;" was disappointed to learn this was not because actual Canadians now ruled the globe.