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• ix • Introduction: Sic Semper Tyrannis • essay by Jerry Pournelle
• 1 • MacDonough's Song • (1912) • poem by Rudyard Kipling
• 4 • The Cloak and the Staff • [Shane Evert] • (1980) • novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
• 41 • Winter Snow • [President Nivling] • (1984) • short story by Marcia Martin and Eric Vinicoff
• 55 • A Way Out Maybe ... Or a Dead End For Sure. A Disarmer's Assessment of Western "Defense" Policy • essay by John Brunner
• 76 • A Letter from the Soviet Union • (1984) • essay by Alexander Shatravka
• 81 • Emergency Rations • (1953) • short story by Theodore R. Cogswell
• 88 • The Proud Foot of the Conqueror • short story by Reginald Bretnor
• 112 • Lepanto • (1911) • poem by G. K. Chesterton
• 120 • A Cure for Croup • [Barley Cross] • (1985) • novelette by Edward P. Hughes
• 143 • Comment and Discussion on "Elevation of the U.S. Fleet" by Captain Richard B. Laning, USN (Ret.) • essay by Kenneth Roy [as by Kenneth Roy, P. E.]
• 148 • Battle of Kahlkhopolis • [Friends of the Horseclans] • novelette by Robert Adams
• 169 • The Conqueror of Vectis • novelette by Keith Taylor
• 195 • Operation Kill-Quota • (1978) • short story by Ray Peekner
• 207 • The Man in the Gray Weapons Suit • (1979) • short story by Paul J. Nahin
• 220 • Reagan vs. the Scientists • (1984) • essay by Robert Jastrow
• 247 • Joined the Space Force to Wear My Blues • short story by John Maddox Roberts
• 254 • Psyops • (1983) • essay by Stefan T. Possony
• 265 • Three Soldiers • (1978) • novelette by D. C. Poyer
• 288 • Interim Justice • short story by William F. Wu
• 302 • No Truce with Kings • (1963) • novella by Poul Anderson