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It's been years since I read Forever War, but I remember enjoying it. Starship Troopers is one of my all time favorites.
Maybe I'm just weird, but I never really thought of Starship Troopers as a war novel. There's just way too much of the flashback classroom stuff, and it really beats you over the head with all the commentary about the individual and his relationship with society. Finally, it reads more like a "coming of age" story than a war story to me.
None of that stuff stuck me as particularly right wing. The ideas Heinlein pushed always seemed to me to be politically ecumenical, but socially progressive (but not in a liberal v. conservative way).
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