There Will Be War

In the beginning spears were "high-tech", and the most that one weapon could accomplish at one time was one death. But millennia passed and techniques improved. By the time of the Romans a lucky bolt might impale a file of infantry. By the dreadful 20th century the very existence of the race - we still were earth-bound, then - was at risk. But somehow, even though the weapons grew ever more terrible, that risk was averted and humanity gained first the planets and then the stars. And still the weapons grew, until the very universe has cause to fear the wrath of Man... Contents: Reflex by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle Spanish Man's Grave by James Warner Bellah Marius by Poul Anderson The Threat by Advisory Commission Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card A Death in Realtime by R.S. McEnroe Overdose by Spider Robinson Saul's Death by Joe Haldeman High Frontier by Robert A. Heinlein and Lt. General Daniel Graham Two Poems by Jon Post Diasporah by W.R. Yates His Truth Goes Marching On by Jerry Pournelle THOR by Weapons Committee of the Citizens' Advisory Coucil on National Space Policy The Defenders by Philip K. Dick Unlimited Warfare by Hayford Pierce The Battle by Robert Sheckley Military Virtue by Jerry Pournelle Ranks of Bronze by David Drake I Am Nothing by Eric Frank Russell Call Him Lord by Gordon R. Dickson Quiet Village by David McDaniel Strategy of Technology by Jerry Pournelle Widow's Party by Rudyard Kipling