Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Introduction: Warriors and Statesmen • (1986) • essay by Jerry Pournelle
• He Fell Into a Dark Hole • (1973) • novelette by Jerry Pournelle
• Coup • [Krishna] • (1967) • novelette by Mack Reynolds
• The Prevention of War • (1970) • essay by Francis X. Kane and Stefan T. Possony and Jerry Pournelle [as by Francis X. Kane and Stefan T. Possony and Jerry E. Pournelle]
• The Wedding March • [Barley Cross] • (1986) • short story by Edward P. Hughes
• Ford o' Kabul River • non-genre • (1892) • poem by Rudyard Kipling
• Fighting Back • (1986) • short fiction by Robert Gleason and Douglas J. Greenlaw
• Victory • (1986) • short fiction by J. P. Boyd
• The War Against "Star Wars" • (1984) • essay by Robert Jastrow
• Final Solution • (1986) • short fiction by Ames MacKenzie
• Masterplay • (1986) • short fiction by William F. Wu
• Defense in a N-Dimensional World: Technological Surprise Must Be Prevented • (1986) • essay by Stefan T. Possony
• Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries • (1931) • poem by A. E. Housman
• The Oracles • (1939) • poem by A. E. Housman
• The Last Three Days • (1986) • poem by Timothy P. Sarnecki
• The Interrogation Team • [Hammer's Slammers] • (1985) • short story by David Drake
• A Time of Martyrs • (1986) • short fiction by Jim Fiscus
• The Road Not Taken • [Roxalani • 1] • (1985) • novelette by Harry Turtledove
• Delusions of Soviet Weakness • (1985) • essay by Edward N. Luttwak
• The Day and the Hour • (1976) • short fiction by Duncan Lunan
• House of Weapons • [Shane Evert] • (1985) • novella by Gordon R. Dickson