pt. 1: The origins of modern war. Machiavelli : the renaissance of the art of war / Felix Gilbert ; Maurice of Nassau, Gustavus Adolphus, Raimondo Montecuccoli, and the "military revolution" of the seventeenth century / Gunther E. Rothernberg ; Vauban : the impact of science on war / Henry Guerlac ; Frederick the Great, Guibert, Bülow : from dynastic to national war / R.R. Palmer --

pt. 2. The expansion of war. Napoleon and the revolution in war / Peter Paret ; Jomini / John Shy ; Clausewitz / Peter Paret --

pt. 3: From the Industrial Revolution to the First World War. Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List : the economic foundations of military power / Edward Mead Earle ; Engels and Marx on revolution, war, and the army in society / Sigmund Neumann and Mark von Hagen ; The Prusso-German school : Moltke and the rise of the general staff / Hajo Holborn ; Moltke, Schieffen, and the doctrine of strategic envelopment / Gunther E. Rothenberg ; Delbrück : the military historian / Gordon A. Craig ; Russian military thought : the Western model and the shadow of Suvorov / Walter Pinter ; Bugeaud, Galliéni, Lyautey : the development of French colonial warfare / Douglas Porch ; American strategy from its beginnings through the First World War / Russell F. Weigley ; Alfred Thayer Mahan : the naval historian / Philip A. Crowl --

pt. 4: From the First to the Second World War. The political leader as strategist / Gordon A. Craig ; Men against fire : the doctrine of the offensive in 1914 / Michael Howard ; German strategy in the age of machine warfare, 1914-1945 / Michael Geyer ; Liddell Hart and De Gaulle : the doctrines of limited liability and mobile defense / Brian Bond and Martin Alexander ; Voices from the central blue : the air power theorists / David MacIsaac ; The making of Soviet strategy / Condoleezza Rice ; Allied strategy in Europe, 1939-1945 / Maurice Matloff ; American and Japanese strategies in the Pacific War / D. Clayton James --

pt. 5: Since 1945. The first two generations of nuclear strategists / Lawrence Freedman ; Conventional warfare in the nuclear age / Michael Carver ; Revolutionary war / John Shy and Thomas W. Collier ; Reflections on strategy in the present and future / Gordon A. Craig and Felix Gilbert.