Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Preface: To Provide for the Common Defense • (1984) • essay by Jerry Pournelle
• Preface to the 2015 Reissue (There Will Be War Volume II) • essay by Jerry Pournelle
• The Weapon • (1951) • short story by Fredric Brown
• Time Lag • (1961) • novelette by Poul Anderson
• The Technological War • (1970) • essay by Stefan T. Possony and Jerry Pournelle [as by Stefan T. Possony and Jerry E. Pournelle]
• Manual of Operations • (1974) • short story by Jerry Pournelle
• 'Caster • (1982) • novelette by Eric Vinicoff
• Proud Legions • (1963) • essay by T. R. Fehrenbach
• ... and Baby Makes Three • (1982) • essay by Doan Van Toai
• In the Name of the Father • [Barley Cross] • (1980) • short story by Edward P. Hughes
• Superiority • (1951) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• Final Muster • (1961) • novelette by Rick Rubin
• Parable of the Phantom Limb • (1984) • poem by Edward C. Garrett
• Forbidden Lines • (1984) • poem by Robert Frazier
• The New Weather • (1980) • poem by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Directions for Killing the Automated House • (1981) • poem by Steve Rasnic Tem
• On The Shadow of a Phosphor Screen • (1979) • novelette by William F. Wu [as by William Wu]
• Cincinnatus • (1983) • short story by Joel Rosenberg
• Code-Name Feirefitz • [Hammer's Slammers] • (1984) • novelette by David Drake
• Allamagoosa • (1955) • short story by Eric Frank Russell
• Peacekeeper • (1984) • short story by Jerry Pournelle [as by J. E. Pournelle]