* 1 • Introduction (Body Armor: 2000) • essay by Joe Haldeman
* 5 • Contact! • (1974) • shortstory by David Drake
* 21 • The Warbots • (1968) • shortstory by Larry S. Todd
* 45 • The Scapegoat • (1985) • novella by C. J. Cherryh
* 93 • The Last Crusade • (1955) • shortstory by George H. Smith
* 106 • Hired Man • (1970) • shortstory by Richard C. Meredith
* 122 • Early Model • (1956) • novelette by Robert Sheckley
* 141 • In the Bone • (1966) • shortstory by Gordon R. Dickson
* 163 • The Chemically Pure Warriors • (1962) • novella by Allen Kim Lang
* 222 • Right to Life • (1985) • shortstory by Thomas A. Easton
* 234 • Or Battle's Sound • [Matter Transmitter] • (1968) • novelette by Harry Harrison (aka No War, or Battle's Sound)
* 256 • Hero • [Mandella] • (1972) • novella by Joe Haldeman
In the future, war is still hell, and man retains one inescapable impulse: Survival. As technology advances, the tools of battle--the strategies, the weaponry, the scope of destruction--also advance.
Eleven tales of the future's battlefields by C.J. Cherryh, David Drake, Gordon R. Dickson, Harry Harrison, Joe Haldeman, et al.