Almost. It's Dr. Jerry Pournelle, who himself, like me, is a particular fan of post WWII period sci-fi writer H. Beam Piper, who also turned out a few novellas for the pulp detective anthologies of his day.
Among my favourites from Dr. Pournelle: his series There Will Be War, interspersing short stories with technical and service academy reports, offering possibilities of the theoretical and possible, but even including a poetic form or two for spice.
Pournelle's co-authorship with Larry Niven of several other offerings is another swell source of both fun reading and a hairs-on-the-back-of-the-neck feeling that these guys could be right, most particularly Lucifer's Hammer and The Mote in God's Eye. Pournelle makes a swell starting place for continuing your SF education once you've run out of Heinlein.
And for a quick and dirty [not in the porno sense] Pournelle starting place, Janissaries isn't too bad a place to begin to get a feel for the way the good Doctor crafts a tale.
