One of my all-time favorite authors (sci-fi or not), David Drake, recently chatted with military sci-fi blog Black Five. While many people mentally link military sci-fi with political Conservatism (and do so with good reason), I am acutally quite a huge fan of the genre. Drake's Hammer's Slammers series, in particular, is a brilliant example of the genre - Drake consciously avoids polemics about right- versus left-wing politics in the books, focusing mainly on them men who have to do the dirty work and the effects that war has on them.
Of course, Drake himself spent two years in Vietnam with the Blackhorse, a U.S. armored regiment - an experience which led directly to his creation of Hammer's Slammers, and of which he is obviously very proud.
Below are the first three parts - if you view the videos at YouTube, you can find the rest of the parts pretty easily.
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