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Starship Troopers is on the reading list because of politics of the books, not technical warfighting side. There is also interesting passage in there about how
by stackskipton 1y ago
Starship Troopers is on the reading list because of politics of the books, not technical warfighting side. There is also interesting passage in there about how Service Academies are insane idea since books has chapters on officers in infantry are enlisted personnel who go to OCS and training period with much higher washout rate.
- paleotrope 1y agoI would say it's more about the discussion of morality and specifically the morality of actions in war and not the politics of war, though they are linked. The lesson of the Skinnies is quite jarring for someone that didn't go through WW2. Earth outright terrorizes the Skinnies into submission.
- ReptileMan 1y agoGunship diplomacy works.