Review: Pretty good military science fiction
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 15, 2013
"Soldiers" is a two-novel story of a conflict between the Earth Commonwealth and a xenophobic alien race which seeks to overrun and exterminate humanity.  Humanity has been at peace for a very long time and must re-arm and indeed re-learn much of the art of war.  Part I largely focuses on the training of the light infantry forces, and the main protagonists are in boot camp.There is some interesting speculation in these novels concerning the evolution of human society and the effect that practical interstellar travel and colonization might have on human politics and society.  Overall this is a pretty fair set of military science fiction novels.  RJB.