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| List of Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| Why the West Has Won | |
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| Enlightened Thugs | |
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| The Primacy of Battle | |
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| Ideas of the West | |
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| The Western Way of War | |
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| Creation | |
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| Freedom-or "To Live as You Please" | |
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| Salamis, September 28, 480 B.C. | |
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| The Drowned | |
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| The Achaemenids and Freedom | |
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| The Persian Wars and the Strategy of Salamis | |
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| The Battle | |
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| Eleutheria | |
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| The Legacy of Salamis | |
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| Decisive Battle | |
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| Gaugamela, October 1, 331 B.C. | |
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| Angles of Vision | |
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| The Macedonian Military Machine | |
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| Killing Spree | |
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| Decisive Battle and Western Warfare | |
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| Citizen Soldiers | |
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| Cannae, August 2, 216 B.C. | |
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| A Summer Slaughter | |
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| Hannibal's Jaws | |
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| Carthage and the West | |
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| Legions of Rome | |
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| The Idea of a Nation-in-Arms | |
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| "Rulers of the Entire World"-the Legacy of Civic Militarism | |
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| Continuity | |
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| Landed Infantry | |
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| Poitiers, October 11, 732 | |
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| Horse Versus Foot | |
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| The Wall | |
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| The Hammer | |
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| Islam Ascendant | |
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| Dark Ages? | |
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| Infantry, Property, and Citizenship | |
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| Poitiers and Beyond | |
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| Technology and the Wages of Reason | |
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| Tenochtitl�n, June 24, 1520-August 13, 1521 | |
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| The Battles for Mexico City | |
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| Aztec War | |
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| The Mind of the Conquistadors | |
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| Spanish Rationalism | |
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| Why Did the Castilians Win? | |
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| Reason and War | |
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| The Market-or Capitalism Kills | |
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| Lepanto, October 7, 1571 | |
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| Galley War | |
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| Legends of Lepanto | |
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| Europe and the Ottomans | |
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| Capitalism, the Ottoman Economy, and Islam | |
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| War and the Market | |
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| Control | |
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| Discipline-or Warriors Are Not Always Soldiers | |
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| Rorke's Drift, January 22-23, 1879 | |
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| Killing Fields | |
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| The Imperial Way | |
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| Zulu Power and Impotence | |
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| Courage Is Not Necessarily Discipline | |
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| Individualism | |
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| Midway, June 4-8, 1942 | |
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| Floating Infernos | |
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| The Annihilation of the Devastators | |
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| The Imperial Fleet Moves Out | |
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| Western and Non-Western Japan | |
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| Spontaneity and Individual Initiative at Midway | |
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| Individualism in Western Warfare | |
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| Dissent and Self-Critique | |
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| Tet, January 31-April 6, 1968 | |
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| Battles Against the Cities | |
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| Victory as Defeat | |
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| Aftermath | |
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| War amid Audit, Scrutiny, and Self-Critique | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Western Warfare-Past and Future | |
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| The Hellenic Legacy | |
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| Other Battles? | |
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| The Singularity of Western Military Culture | |
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| The Continuity of Western Lethality | |
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| The West Versus the West? | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Carnage and Culture after September 11, 2001 | |
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| Glossary for Further Reading | |
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| Index | |