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• 1 • Introduction (Deserts of Fire) • essay by Douglas Lain
• 5 • Vietnam Syndrome • essay by Douglas Lain
• 9 • The Big Flash • (1969) • novelette by Norman Spinrad
• 33 • The Village • (1973) • short story by Kate Wilhelm
• 43 • Terrorism • essay by Douglas Lain
• 47 • The Frozen One • (2008) • short story by Tim Pratt
• 55 • The Language of Monsters • short story by Michael Canfield
• 77 • In the Loop • (2014) • short story by Ken Liu
• 93 • Wasps/Spiders • short story by Brendan C. Byrne
• 103 • Weapons of Mass Destruction • essay by Douglas Lain
• 107 • Text of Colin Powell's Speech to the UN Security Council Cut Up with Regret • short fiction by Anonymous
• 111 • The Seventh Expression of the Robot General • (2008) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
• 119 • Shock, Awe, and Combat • essay by Douglas Lain
• 123 • Over Here • (2010) • short story by Ray Vukcevich
• 135 • Shaytan, the Whisperer • short story by Pedro Iniguez
• 147 • Five Good Things About Meghan Sheedy • [The Proxy War] • (2008) • short story by A. M. Dellamonica
• 167 • The People We Kill • short story by Audrey Carroll
• 177 • Light and Shadow • (2014) • short story by Linda Nagata
• 199 • Mission Accomplished • essay by Douglas Lain
• 203 • Winnebago Brave • short story by Rob McCleary
• 217 • Seeing Double • short story by Ray Daley
• 223 • Life After Wartime? • essay by Douglas Lain
• 227 • Sealed • short story by Robert Morgan Fisher
• 233 • Unzipped • (2007) • short story by Steven J. Dines
• 243 • The Sun Inside • (2008) • novella by David J. Schwartz
• 283 • Excerpt from Corrosion • short fiction by Jon Bassoff
• 307 • War Is Over? (Do We Want It?) • essay by Douglas Lain
• 311 • Noam Chomsky and the Time Box • (2011) • short story by Douglas Lain
• 343 • Arms and the Woman • (1991) • novelette by James Morrow