Starship Troopers

In reading Starship Troopers, students discussed the ways in which Heinlein uses his novel to idealize the military and respond to the rising threat of Communism. Class discussions were focused on a military run government, voting rights and citizenship, and the different technologies imagined for intergalactic war. Dr. Stephen Craft, Professor of Security Studies and International Affairs, specializing in U.S.- Asian Relations, gave a guest lecture on Starship Troopers as response to U.S. military operations in the 1950s.