Re: RE:Reading Request.

AH-YUP! 

THE BERSERKER WARS ARE GREAT!

do not overlook SHIVA IN STEEL.

might also check out the  LIEUTENANT LEARY stories by DAVID DRAKE.

also these books which have  an interesting and well dvloped
background/characters as well as some combat;

ONCE A HERO,  CHANGE OF COMMAND,  RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, and brain death!
cannot remember the 4th book or the  author. 

ARMOR, author unrmembered.

THE FOREVER WAR by JOE HALDEMAN.

THE MERCENARY (braindeath again! by POURNELLE i think)

SOLDIER ASK NOT! by GORDON DICKSON. also all of the DORSAI UNIVERSE
books by DICKSON.

SPACE VIKING by H.B. PIPER. also his FEDERATION UNIVERSE stories.

A PLANET FOR TEXANS is intersting but has more day to day life on a
frontier  world from a "diplomats" point of  view. 

POUL ANDERSON produced	some  fine  space combat as part of his  DOMINIC
FLANDRY, and POLEOSEOTECHNIC LEAGUE stories.

JAMES WHITE has some good  books, some of which have space  war as a
background.

KENNETH BULMER, PHILLIP K DICK, JOHN BRUNNER, ERIC FRANK RUSSELL,  JACK
WILLIAMSON,  and zillons of others.