There Will Be War

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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