I also love the movie and have been curious about the stories. Ed Meskys remarked somewhere that Jones fought in the Pacific in WWII, and that the concept of two advanced civilizations fighting a war on a more primitive planet over the heads, as it were, of natives who had no stake in the war (i.e., Earth) was based on that experience. Thus "island" Earth.
He goes into that quite well, the way natives on Polynesian islands in WWII would build airstrips without really knowing what they were for. It's certainly the whole idea behind the story, and it's expressed better in the book than the film.
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