[Fiji Hill]

I'd recommend that folks read This Kind of War before they read postmodern drivel.

I read that when I was a sophomore in high school. Other books that I read as a teenager are listed here.

[ArrogantBustard]

As a teenager, I found the chapter "Proud Legions" in one of Jerry Pournelle's anthologies.

It deeply impressed me ... I asked my (retired officer) father about it, and he pulled the book off his shelf and handed it to me. It had been required reading for him as a junior officer.

It's well worth reading several times. I have my own copy, now.