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• viii • Introduction (The Future at War Vol. 1: Thor's Hammer) • (1979) • essay by Reginald Bretnor
• 1 • The Long Watch • [Future History] • (1949) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein
• 17 • Defending the Third Industrial Revolution • (1979) • essay by G. Harry Stine
• 33 • Old Woman by the Road • (1978) • short story by Gregory Benford
• 40 • Encased in the Amber of Eternity • (1979) • poem by Robert Frazier
• 42 • Moon Rocks • (1973) • short story by Tom Purdom
• 54 • Lasers, Grasers, and Marxists • (1976) • essay by Jerry Pournelle
• 68 • Fixed-Price War • [Merle Walters • 1] • short fiction by Charles Sheffield (variant of Fixed Price War 1978)
• 85 • Marius • [Psychotechnic League] • (1957) • short story by Poul Anderson
• 101 • Weapons in Future Warfare • (1979) • essay by Roger A. Beaumont and R. Snowden Ficks
• 119 • Scenario for the Fall of Night • (1979) • short story by Roger A. Beaumont
• 128 • The Spell of War • [Lord Darcy] • (1978) • novelette by Randall Garrett
• 153 • Military Vehicles: Into the Third Millennium • (1979) • essay by Dean Ing
• 165 •  Military Vehicles: Into the Third Millennium • (1979) • interior artwork by Stephen Fabian
• 167 •  Military Vehicles: Into the Third Millennium [2] • (1979) • interior artwork by Stephen Fabian
• 169 •  Military Vehicles: Into the Third Millennium [3] • (1979) • interior artwork by Stephen Fabian
• 174 • The Man in the Gray Weapons Suit • (1979) • short story by Paul J. Nahin
• 186 • Just an Old-Fashioned War Story • (1977) • short story by Michael G. Coney
• 202 • The Private War of Private Jacob • (1974) • short story by Joe Haldeman
• 209 • One Foot in the Grave: Medicine in Future Warfare • (1979) • essay by Alan E. Nourse
• 224 • Shark • (1973) • short story by Edward Bryant
• 244 • Training • (1979) • short story by David Langford
• 250 • Final Muster • (1961) • novelette by Rick Rubin