Books like War Machine

The story was interesting, but the execution was sloppy, and his willingness to throw in absurd and bizarre names for people, places and things was distracting. One of the main characters was named Franco Haggis. I kid you not, and that wasn't the worst, by any means. Also, his editor should have talked him into rewriting the final chapter, which read like his word processor was on bad drugs. When the author tells the reader that something CAN'T be done by a robot, and then the little robot sidekick does it anyway in the last chapter...that part read like he had written himself into a corner, and hoped the readers didn't notice the characters escaping through a hole in the plot.The main characters are all quite insane, and know it, but the difficulty is that the reader then has no idea what they can and will do. Two of the three did things that I would have sworn were totally out of character as I was reading the book, and in both cases it affected the story. The little robot, which could be seriously damaged by a human fist, but not sabotaged by a high-tech unstoppable assassin, was like an R2-D2 from the planet Krypton. Truly amazing, as gadgets go...but as part of the plot, an annoying little McGuffin that could do anything that the particular chapter required.If you want military SF, and have run out of books by Gordon Dickson, David Weber, David Drake, Tanya Huff, Steve White, Fred Saberhagen, Keith Laumer, John Scalzi and John Ringo, then go ahead and give this a try.