Interestingly, in my memory of the book, it was all focused on
   Ender and his struggles. There was a war going on around him. He
   was dragged into it because of his potential - and they were
   correct to pick him, yet his social troubles mirrored a lot of
   my own in school at the time.

   He was manipulated by the adult population, although he had some
   sympathetic adult friends who helped him along. And I remember
   the part where he was trying to communicate with the queen...
   something about being on a planet, alien air... and he was
   daring to do what no one thought to do - try to communicate with
   the most impossibly hated creature of humanity - to understand.

   I can still feel the alien sand below my feet, smell the air,
   enter the hive. So strange how it stuck with me.

   Now, for military movies, Starship Troopers to me is more
   suitable. I think it's the comedy in it.