Introduction: on strategy Williamson Murray and Mark Grimsley

1. Athenian strategy in the Peloponnesian War Donald Kagan

2. The strategy of a warrior state: Rome and the wars against Carthage, 264-201 BC Alvin H. Bernstein

3. Chinese strategy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries Arthur Waldron

4. The making of strategy in Habsburg Spain: Philip II's 'bid for mastery', 1556-1598 Geoffrey Parker

5. The origins of a global strategy: England to 1713 William S. Maltby

6. A quest for glory: the formation of strategy under Louis XIV, 1661-1715 John A. Lynn

7. To the edge of greatness: the United States, 1783-1865 Peter Maslowski

8. Strategic uncertainties of a nation state: Prussia-Germany, 1871-1918 Holger H. Herwig

9. The weary titan: strategy and policy in Great Britain, 1890-1918 John Gooch

10. The strategy of the decisive weight: Italy, 1882-1992 Brian R. Sullivan

11. The road to ideological war: Germany, 1918-1945 Wilhelm Deist

12. The collapse of empire: British strategy, 1919-1945 Williamson Murray

13. The strategy of innocence? The United States, 1920-1945 Eliot A. Cohen

14. The illusion of security: France, 1919-1940 Robert A. Doughty

15. Strategy for class war: the Soviet Union, 1917-1941 Earl F. Ziemke

16. The evolution of Israeli strategy: the psychology of insecurity and the quest for absolute security Michael I. Handel

17. Strategy in the Nuclear Age: the United States, 1945-1991 Colin S. Gray

Conclusion: continuity and revolution in the making of strategy MacGregor Knox.