Lines of Departure

Unfortunately for me, this military scifi was, for more than 50%, on-leave scifi, vacation scifi, visiting mum scifi, getting engaged scifi and so on. Then, from what was actually milscifi, most is still not about the interesting enemy, but other humans. Then (2), there's a huge, mutinous lack of discipline that I, as a real officer, did not find believable and also really not enjoyable (maybe civilians enjoy rebels, but soldiers not really). Then (3), worst offender for me: POSSIBLE SPOILER all of humanity couldn't find a solution for yearsfor a specific problem and then bang! a small team finds it immediately AND it is the simplest one, that even a Neanderthal would have thought first (I am not kidding, the idea is at that tehnological stage and a natural, reflex reaction for any humanoid).
On the other hand, I still greatly enjoyed the writing and the narrative flow. Kloos is an excellent writer, but with a big deficit on original ideas and, here, a propensity for bang! lucky save again! And again! And again!
I will read the rest of the series, though, as it still is very good escapist literature.