Stories and essays about the future of war and conflict discuss tank warfare, alternative future histories, weapon systems, and the Soviet Union. This is the seventh book in the series with the following stories.
- Call to Battle, Jerry E. Pournelle
- The Tank Lords, David Drake
- We Hold These Rights, Henry Melton
- Battle Cry, Tim Sarnecki
- Test for Tyrants, Edward P. Hughes
- The Roman Centurion’s Song, Rudyard Kipling
- The Islanders, Rudyard Kipling
- Another “Low Dishonest Decade” on the Left, Peter Collier and David Horowitz
- The Last Article, Harry Turtledove
- Wizard Weapons, Stefan T. Possony, Jerry E. Pournelle, and Francis X. Kane
- A Soldier’s Best Friend, Eric Vinicoff
- Who’s In Charge Here?, Stefan T. Possony
- The Iron Angel, Don Hawthorne
- Psi-Rec: I Gladiator, Peter Dillingham
- Specialization in War, Reginald Bretnor
- Were-Tigers, Rob Chilson
- Remember the Alamo!, T. R. Fehrenbach
- Valhalla for Hire, Lee Brainard
- Debating SDI: Opinion or Fact?, Doug Beason
- Consequences, Walter Jon Williams
- Afterword (Call to Battle!), Jerry Pournelle
Our society guarantees every crackpot, nut, and ax murderer the right to air their opinions in public. And this is not bad; in fact, it’s the very stuff that makes us free. No matter how weird or disjointed someone else’s view may seem, there just might be a glimmer of insight in that cesspool of twisted rationale.
The danger comes when those bastions of free thought — the printed, vocal and visual media — take subtle sides in an argument; taking sides by presenting opinions as facts. — From Debating SDI: Opinion or Fact?
I’m going to Sierra Vista again tomorrow with a goal in mind to get a Starlink Mini to fix the Verizon problem. I’ll be stopping first at Best Buy to talk to someone in the Greek Squad about installing it when Best Buy has them available again (now they are sold out). I has a Chat with what I thought to be a human a few days ago and was told that the Greek Squad would do the install. I want to make sure that they will also take the TV antenna off and patch the roof; I have a feeling that they will not want to do that. If that feeling becomes fact I’ll go to RV City and make an appointment for them to do the removal and roof patching. I sent them an email and asked if they would do the Starlink install and they said they had no experience doing that and would not try to do it. We will see how that all shakes out.