Star ship trooper book7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Much of the military action in the novel parallels the Pacific campaign of World War II ending at Guadalcanal. The story traces the evolution of Juan "Johnnie" Rico from feckless civilian into an Officer and a Gentleman during the Bug War as a Framing Device and example. ![]() Heinlein, a former naval officer who had received a health-related discharge before he could gain actual combat experience, interviewed infantry soldiers and officers to get the "flavor" of ground combat for his book. It waxes Anvilicious on the merits of soldiers being willing to give their lives for their country and the proper merits of a soldier, an officer, and an army and nation as a whole. ban on nuclear testing, and published in 1959. Heinlein as an argument against a unilateral U.S. Starship Troopers is a Military Science Fiction novel written by Robert A. ![]()
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