Whoops, found a sweet outline but the info is old so all the numbers were wrong so I deleted it.
I think we should try powerplay ConflictZones when we get into expansion again. At this point we may have enough firepower/skill to move through targets pretty fast. In the Military Strikes you only get 10 merits/kill but you don't have to jump/search/interdict the next target.
Once you've been in a military strike for a while, the allied ships will start to outnumber the reds and you go from fighting targets to trying to catch up before the friendly NPC's finish them off. With 4 (or more) of us we should be able to steamroll the zone.