The Military Dimension: Mark II

An expanded reissue of The Military Dimension (1991).

• Introduction: Welcome to the War Zone
• Rescue Mission
• The Dancer in the Flames
• Arclight
• Band of Brothers
• Firefight
• Contact!
• As Our Strength Lessens
• Best of Luck
• The Guardroom
• The Last Battalion
• The Tank Lords
• The End
• The Way We Die
• Afterword: One War Later

Conflict as only David Drake, master of military SF, can tell it!

Here are four new stories about soldiers doing the best they can in disasters where nothing is certain – least of all their own survival. Death wears a thousand screaming faces, and the only choice is to go on or go under. The universe won't care.