>What really irks me about that critique, though, is not the claim that
>the fictional nation was militarist or fascist. It's the leap from
>there to the claim that the author is those things. That the
>same man wrote the hippie-neopagan favorite, Stranger in a Strange
>Land, never seems to register with those bozos.

Not only did the same man write Stranger but he wrote it simultaneously with Starship Troopers. If I can briefly quote from Mendlesohn 2019:

In a letter to Frank Robinson dated 18 September 1969, he writes that when writing Starship Troopers and Stranger in a Strange Land, essentially alongside each other, there was never any conflict because both 'are based on the twin concepts of love and duty'.