I'll add

Destroyer men,
Lost Fleet
Valor
All series.

Still looking for new ground pounding stuff, market seems dry.

Lee

the fall of Reach
ghost of onyx
first strike
all by eric nylund
yes there halo books but all very good reads but slightly out dated

If you can find them then Jerry Pournelle's 'There Will Be War' series of anthologies is pretty good. Same with his 'War World' series...

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Tom

Highly recommended: Robert Frezza's trilogy
A Small Colonial War
Fire In A Faraway Place
Cain's Land

Especially the first two will give you hundreds of ideas for small battles/ large skirmishes often between very asymmetric forces ( Colonial troops, Regulars, Rebel colonists, armed mobs) No Aliens though!

Aside from that, really good reads with some of the most charismatic characters ever.
You'll never forget the Variag = Lt. Col. Anton Vereshagin, Maj. Matti Harjalo or Lt Danny Meagher.


Subtitle of the first book is ' Corporate stupidity made a world rebel. So the Imperial Task Group has to set things right.'

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Gotcha!

I'd like to second the recommendation for The Fleet series. David Drake also has two other good Military Sci-Fi series. Hammer's Slammers is the first one, which has it's own set of wargaming rules published. The second being the Republic of Cinnabar Navy series.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers that The Fleet had a computer wargame based on it called Star General], which was unfortunately well before its time.

howabout "A Desert called Peace" by Tom kratman, I've only started reading it but, 20/21stC human tech on the only colony world that earth has; most of misfits & people that don't want to fit in shipped off to a earth-like world & left to grow & stew for a few 100 years. Multiple countries/races. Basically earth as it is now mixed up abit given a slightly higher tech in some things & lower in others.

I have used material from the Hammer's Slammers novel Rolling Hot for scenarios for several different rules sets. Its a great read too!

Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton, deals with mercenaries and guerrilla warfare in the (not so) far future.

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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach." - Aldous Huxley

Altered Carbon, Broken Angels and Woken Furies which, whilst not straight war stories, deal with near future worlds and the ex-military protagonist Takeshi Kovacs. These tech-noir thrillers rolls along with plenty of brutal action and stunning visualisation of a future that feels achingly possible. More a skirmish setting than battle inspiration. Nonetheless, the ideas, description and utilization of the technology of weapons, gear, vehicles and EW a perfect for a TW timeline and setting. Fantastic stuff!
Cheers,
Johnny

Yes, altered Carbon is a great novel, full of humor 'a la film noir', definitely a must read.

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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach." - Aldous Huxley

I just finished the Stark's War series by John G Hemry. It's a trilogy, Stark's War, Stark's Command, and Stark's Crusade. IMO pretty good combat SF. All action takes place on the Moon, and the author gets the environment pretty right. Other than a little bit of some deus ex machina toward the end of the last book, I give this series 4 *s.

Tried reading the first book but the story didn't flow very well for me. Cool setting but all the different characters made it a bit confusing (at least for me).

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Ok folks our first song is a sing along but the song has no lyrics, so good luck - Steve Martin

Seconding "Stark's War" on low-grav warfare.
Lee Stephen's "Epic" has nice x-commy theme if you can live through the constant religious references.

Uller Uprising by H. Beam Piper.

Also the Falkenberg's Mercenraies series by Jerry Pournelle.