Breach the Hull (Defending the Future, Bk 1)

Hardcore negotiations have begun, get ready for plenty of action-packed military science fiction as the dogs-of-war are let loose on an unsuspecting universe in 16 hard-hitting stories by; Jack McDevitt, John C. Wright, Mike McPhail, James Daniel Ross, Danielle Ackley-McPhail, James Chambers, Jeffrey Lyman, John G. Hemry (aka Jack Campbell), Bud Sparhawk, Lawrence M. Schoen, Patrick Thomas, Tony Ruggiero, and C.J. Henderson.