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| Introduction | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Note on the Text | |
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| Preface | |
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| In Cosimo Rucellai's garden, Fabrizio Colonna starts discussing the art of war | |
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| Imitation of the ancients | |
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| Honest men should not make war their sole profession | |
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| No prince or republic should allow citizens to make war their sole profession | |
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| Where the best soldiers are to be found | |
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| Should they be recruited from urban or rural areas | |
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| Pros and cons of a militia | |
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| What sort of men should be in an army | |
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| How the Romans raised their legions | |
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| Should a militia be large or small | |
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| Preventing disorders militias may occasion | |
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| Raising and paying a cavalry | |
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| The ancients' arms and armor | |
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| Contemporary arms and armor; the pike | |
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| Which arming methods are better | |
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| Arming the infantry; necessity for cavalry | |
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| Which is the more dependable | |
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| Ancient and contemporary drills | |
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| Forming a regiment; its battalions and companies | |
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| Three principal means of arranging battalions in battle formation | |
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| Regrouping a battalion and making it face about | |
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| Formation for a lateral attack | |
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| Forming a winged and hollow-square battalion | |
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| A battalion's baggage, officers, and music | |
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| Digression on military virtue and its rarity today | |
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| Number of cavalry necessary for a regiment | |
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| Roman battle formation | |
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| Macedonian, Roman, and Swiss formations | |
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| Advisability of combining Greek and Roman methods | |
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| Number of men in Roman army | |
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| Recommendation for drawing up a regiment or army | |
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| Description of a mock battle | |
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| Reasons for its various maneuvers | |
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| Army's general exercises | |
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| Precautions and devices useful in drawing up an army, during action, and after battle | |
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| Two other formations | |
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| When a general should engage | |
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| Rules generals should observe | |
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| Avoiding battles | |
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| Inspiring and calming an army | |
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| Utility of religion in an army | |
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| Making men fight | |
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| Roman and contemporary means for marching through enemy territory | |
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| Forming and defending an army in battle formation | |
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| Giving commands | |
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| Provisioning an army | |
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| Dividing spoils | |
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| Avoiding ambushes | |
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| A general's familiarity with terrain: necessity for; means of acquiring | |
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| Other marching precautions | |
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| Fording a river; avoiding battle while so doing | |
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| Avoiding enemy traps in passes | |
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| How Greeks and Romans chose camp sites | |
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| Setting up camp | |
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| Guarding a camp | |
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| Ancient military justice | |
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| Ancient regulations: women and gambling | |
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| Striking camp | |
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| Other considerations ancients used in choosing camp sites | |
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| Providing against famine | |
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| Encamping 2 to 4 regiments | |
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| Number of men needed to engage | |
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| How some generals escaped an enemy | |
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| Creating dissension in enemy ranks | |
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| Suppressing mutiny and discord | |
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| Advisability of letting the enemy become despondent | |
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| Securing a town suspected of disloyalty | |
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| Fighting in winter | |
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| Building and fortifying towns | |
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| Defending a besieged town | |
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| Advice to besieged and besieger | |
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| Trusting appearances | |
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| Drawing out a besieged garrison | |
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| Corrupting and suprising a town | |
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| Guarding a besieged town | |
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| Communicating with the outside | |
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| Repairing and defending a breach | |
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| Mines and subterranean passages | |
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| Not dividing your men | |
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| Exposure to an assault | |
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| General rules of military discipline | |
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| Obtaining sufficient horses | |
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| New devices and the general's use | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Diagrams | |
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| Dedicatory Epistle to Elizabeth I | |
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| Index | |