John Scalzi's The Sagan Diary is a novella lenth piece that recounts some episodes form his Old Man universe from the viewpoint of Lt. Jane Sagan of the Colonial Special Forces. It is somewhat fragmented, but provides an interesting counterpoint those to his novels.

In Rereading Vietnam, Robert Kaplan looks at some Vietnam War memorys that most Americans are unaware of. There were more military successes than failures for the U.S. in Vietnam, just as the in today's Iraq. Most people never hear of them.