Quaint but good

Despite the dated Gay Panic of the main character, who was supposed to have been born around the same time as me, the clumsy 70's-inspired dystopia that was supposed to be 2007, and the holes in the overall premise (how would you even strategize such a war without faster-than-light communication? why was there any ground combat at all? and so on), the lesson of the futility of war on this or any other scale is an appropriate one for a book finished on Memorial Day.