Good Combat reads. Was: Lousy Combat Sci-Fi

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> I just tried to re-read a few combat sci-fi novels last month by 
David
> Drake and Jerry Pournelle, and I found them to be so insipid & dull 
that I
> just couldn't finish them.
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I have liked very much the novels of Harold Coyle (e.g.'The Ten 
Thousand'). Not Sci-Fi, but at least alternate history (late 20th
century). 
Good combat, interesting characters, and he even has respect for the
'Bad 
Guys'.

Greetings
Karl Heinz