I was so bewildered reading the novel. I had heard he wrote it as a pro military propaganda piece, but I couldn’t help but see it as satire.

They are kitted out in mech suits, making them seem more machine than man, put into drop pods that are fired onto the planet like bullets out a gun. In the pod they are isolated from their comrades, isolated from their humanity, literally turned into pieces of a weapon.

Then they land on the alien planet to perform a terrorist attack on a civilian city. And this book is meant to be pro war?

NumdaQA already pointed out you’re utterly wrong, but some additional context might help:

• The opposition says the government should have grovelled more to avoid the tariff, they wouldn’t ever retaliate with their own.
• The Australian Steel industry does not give a shit.

So while I get it makes sense in Canada, and we are similar countries in a lot of ways, but on this issue we’re just at different political places.