The best response to "Starship Troopers" is "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman, which gives a great account of the use of propaganda to manufacture a war. The m

The best response to "Starship Troopers" is "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman, which gives a great account of the use of propaganda to manufacture a war. The movie is a terribly stupid take on a very good (and widely, perhaps deliberately, misunderstood) book. It says a lot about Heinlein that he wrote Haldeman to praise his take on the subject.