re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Heinlein, a former military man, described organization, tactics and logistics in great detail in that book and again, I was sad to see it all brushed over.
I have come to enjoy the film on its own as a parody of fashionable fascist youth appeal, and the less I am reminded of the original, the better.
Someone on a blog I read at the time said “I’d have enjoyed it a lot more if it had had a different title than ‘Starship Troopers’.”