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Crusade by David Weber and Steve White
Crusade by David Weber and Steve White

In the period of peace following the Human-Orion War, a ship from a half-forgotten history emerges from a warp point notorious for devouring ships and opens fire on the Orions.
Insurrection by David Weber and Steve White
Insurrection by David Weber and Steve White

It's the American Revolution all over again--and this time the stakes are not a single continent, but the stars themselves. Peopled with strong characters who strive to uphold basic human values in a war of future worlds.
In Death Ground by David Weber and Steve White
In Death Ground by David Weber and Steve White

Five thousand years after Sun Tzu writes The Art of War, his advice is followed during the Fourth Interstellar War between the terrible Bugs and the humans, who are aided by their catlike Orion allies. The story is of a future galactic society of Humans, Orions, Ophiuchi, and Gorm, who are all at peace. It has been 60 years since Crusade. Then a survey flotilla enters an uncharted system, and, well, all Hell breaks loose. I won't get into it too much but let's just say that the Bugs are perhaps the most chilling enemy you've seen in a long time.
They are alien beyond any concep of humanity. The book sometimes has their perspective, and it's chilling.
Shiva Option by David Weber and Steve White
Shiva Option by David Weber and Steve White

Fans of space opera who have been eagerly awaiting this sequel to Weber and White's In Death Ground won't be disappointed, to put it mildly. Humanity and its various allies find themselves under attack by an enemy with whom no communication, let alone coexistence, is possible, since their foes lack individual sentience and are driven by a Darwinian imperative to regard all other life forms as food sources. Countered against this nightmare are an assortment of diverse species, some unknown to one another, who share the ability to make moral choices, "including the ultimate choice of sacrificing that very individual consciousness in the name of what all of us recognize, in one form or another, for what it is: honor." This capacity is stretched when it is discovered that, in this war, genocide is a tactical weapon. The authors have created a fictional reality with all of the verisimilitude of a technothriller, but this doesn't credit them enough, since unlike, say, Tom Clancy, they have had to create their own weapons, tactics and even societies. Characterizations are strong and vivid, particularly the Human and Orion command team that spearheads the fight and a fighter pilot who's haunted by the ghosts of her dead. Ultimately, Weber and White have written an exposition, in the form of a novel, of Heinlein's axiom that "ethics are a survival mechanism," leaving the reader both exhilarated and enriched.