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I really wouldn’t classify Dune as military SF. Warmaking is more of a subplot.
I’ve read the Honor Harrington books, and they’re okay, but the Lost Fleet books are superior by just about every metric: military culture, science, tactics — everything.
And this list really should have Taylor Anderson’s Destroyermen series.
100% agree Starship Troopers at number one. I just re-read it recently, and it was even better than I remembered.
Honor Harrington books contain adult characters doing adult things but written family friendly.
In contrast the lost fleet is in the young adult section.
Very simple characters and events.
The two are not comparible.
Ender’s Game is a solid book and enjoyed my read of it, but of this list, my favourite is the Jack Campbell Lost Fleet series, looking at the logistics of war, the restrictions of physics and the pressures that war and responsibility puts on you. The battle scenes were long and often confusing and that felt right as battles in a 3-D environment that took place over millions of kilometres would be. It opened up the whole sub-genre to me and I’m glad to see it mentioned elsewhere.
Not Haskell? His Grimm’s War series deserves to be on here more than some. If you’re going to have any modern authors on here, he should be.
I have read most everything mentioned in this list. However, I am puzzled why no one every mentions Jerry Pournelle’s John Christian Falkenburg series or Timothy Zahn’s Cobra series. Both are very good military Sci-Fi with plausible scenarios.