Introduction, Background, and Science -- The International Small Arms Situation: A Public Health Approach -- Guns and Bullets -- Bombs, Mines, Blast, Fragmentation, and Thermobaric Mechanisms of Injury -- Ballistic Protection -- Forensic Aspects of Ballistic Injury -- Ballistic Trauma, Armed Violence, and International Law -- Clinical Care -- Prehospital Care -- Resuscitation and Anesthesia for the Ballistic Casualty -- Clinical Ballistics: Surgical Management of Soft-Tissue Injuries—General Principles -- Damage Control -- Neck Injury -- Thoracic Injury -- Penetrating Genitourinary Trauma: Management by the Nonspecialist Surgeon -- Abdomen and Pelvis -- Management of Ballistic Trauma to the Head -- Spinal Injury -- Limb Injuries -- Vascular Injury -- Ballistic Trauma in Children -- Injuries in Pregnancy -- Burns -- Intensive Care of the Trauma Patient with Ballistic Injuries -- Imaging Triage for Ballistic Trauma -- Training to Manage Ballistic Trauma -- Resource Limited Situations -- Hospital and System Assessment -- Triage -- Managing Ballistic Injury in the Military Environment: The Concept of Forward Surgical Support -- Managing Ballistic Injury in the NGO Environment -- Expert Tutorials and Hard Lessons -- Ballistic Missile Injuries in the Siege of Sarajevo 1992–1995 -- Vascular Injuries in the Groin -- Conflict Surgery -- Surgery in the Camps -- Ballistics—Lessons Learned -- African Education -- The Role of Intensive Care in the Management of Ballistic Trauma in War -- Survivors and Shooters -- Rectal Examination Revisited -- And Finally -- Where a Trauma Surgeon Can Go Ballistic?.