Orion's Sword

In this, Orion's Sword, Vol 3 of THE FUTURE AT WAR series, brilliant science fiction and military writers take a close look at the future of our planet in the light of History's only sure The Future of War. As inevitable as the colonization of invasions of earth, the solar system at war, wherever humans go, they take their conflicts with them. The socially organized application of force is called war. In this third volume of Reginald Bretnor's unique trilogy of fact and fiction about man's oldest occupation, War, the horizons are spread war in deep space, no hold * Introduction (Orion's The Future at War Vol. 3) (1980) essay by Reginald Bretnor * In a Good Cause—? (1951) / novelette by Isaac Asimov * Chips on Distant Shoulders (1980) essay by Hal Clement * Time Piece (1970) / short story by Joe Haldeman * Inhuman Error [Berserker] (1974) / short story by Fred Saberhagen * Couldn't We All Just Be Dear, Dear Friends? (1980) essay by Keith Laumer * An Alien Sort of War (1980) essay by Katherine MacLean * Early Bird (1973) / short story by Theodore R. Cogswell and Theodore L. Thomas * Inside Straight (1955) novelette by Poul Anderson * World of the Wars (1980) essay by Jon Freeman * Superiority (1951) / short story by Arthur C. Clarke * Steel Brother (1952) / novelette by Gordon R. Dickson (variant of The Steel Brother) * Outguessing the Psychological Aspects of Future War (1980) essay by Alan E. Nourse * City of Yesterday (1967) / short story by Terry Carr * When I Was Red Rover (1957) / short story by Dean Ing (variant of Red Rover) * The Wizard Computers and Robots in Warfare (1980) essay by G. Harry Stine * Field Test [Bolo] (1976) / short story by Keith Laumer * Encased in the Amber of Fate (1980) poem by Robert Frazier.