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• Introduction: The Fog of War • (1987) • essay by Jerry Pournelle
• Ideological Defeat • (1972) • novelette by Christopher Anvil
• Battleground • (1971) • short story by Gregory Benford and James Benford [as by Greg Benford and Jim Benford]
• Surprise • (1987) • essay by Francis X. Kane and Stefan T. Possony and Jerry Pournelle
• Nonlethal • (1987) • novelette by D. C. Poyer
• Abdullah Bulbul Amir • (1987) • poem by unknown
• Render Unto Caesar • (1976) • short story by Marcia Martin and Eric Vinicoff
• See Now, a Pilgrim • [Shane Evert] • (1985) • novella by Gordon R. Dickson
• Information in War • (1987) • essay by Karl von Clausewitz
• Harmonica Song • (1987) • poem by Dan Duncan
• Galileo Saw the Truth • (1977) • poem by Gregory Nicoll
• By Thought Alone • (1987) • short story by William R. Forstchen
• Doughfoot Sanctum • (1987) • short story by James William Holzer
• Learning from Viet Nam • (1982) • essay by David Chanoff and Doan Van Toai
• Major Pugachov's Last Battle • non-genre • [
  Колымские рассказы / The Kolyma Tales^?Kolymskie rasskazy
  ] • (1987) • short story by
  Варлам Шаламов^?Varlam Shalamov
  (trans. of
  Последний бой майора Пугачева^?Posledniy boi majora Pugacheva
  1980) [as by Shalamov]
• A Glorious Triumph for the People • (1987) • short story by E. Michael Blake
• Encased in the Amber of Probabilities • (1987) • poem by Robert Frazier
• Ligdan and the Young Pretender • (1987) • novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• Decisive Warfare: Retrospect and Prospect • (1987) • essay by Reginald Bretnor (variant of Retrospect and Prospect 1979)
• Crown of Thorns • [Barley Cross] • (1987) • novelette by Edward P. Hughes
• The Eyes of Argos • [Agent of Byzantium • 1] • (1986) • novelette by Harry Turtledove
• The Highest Treason • (1961) • novella by Randall Garrett
• Friction in War • (1987) • essay by Karl von Clausewitz
• Uncertainty and Defense • (1987) • essay by Jerry Pournelle