Donald.McLean at 14:31 12 DanielRoseman - Farnhams freehold is often quoted to point a racist finger at him. Starship Troopers does well to demonstrate a lot of the mixed feelings people feel about war and veterans: an opposition to war and what it costs, but veneration for those who serve in it for their sacrifices. And Heinleins whole thing about 'race doesnt matter' is part of why the Starship Troopers movie is such an abomination (the other part being stupid science mistakes that Heinlein would have never made or condoned). But at other turns he lays out plain what so often rampant militarism can cause: soldiers with missing limbs, men dying in battles and wars that they don't even understand the purpose of, a war time atmosphere at home that can stifle civilian industry and rip families apart as men and women are drafted to replenish those lost at an unsustainable rate. Heinlein's writing at times glorifies and honors the bonds built between soldiers as shown with Johnnie's relationships to his superior officers and his own father. Starship troopers Bookreader Item Preview. However, you are just as dead if you buy. Robert Heinlein's tale of Mobile Infantry member Juan "Johnnie" Rico's journey from a student unsure of his future to an experienced, but still nervous when it counts, 2nd Lieutenant and veteran of "The Bug War," treads a very fine line between satire of and love note to militarism. Everything up to then and still later were incidents, patrols or police actions.
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