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| List of maps | |
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| List of boxes and tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: strategic history | |
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| Themes and contexts of strategic history | |
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| Introduction: a binding framework | |
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| Themes | |
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| Contexts | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Carl von Clausewitz and the theory of war | |
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| Introduction: theory for all seasons | |
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| Strategic ideas and strategic behaviour | |
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| Jomini and Clausewitz | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| From limited war to national war: the French Revolution and the Napoleonic way of war | |
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| Introduction: two transformations | |
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| Limited war and great war | |
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| The Revolution and its warfare | |
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| Napoleon's art of war | |
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| Problems with the Napoleonic way of war and warfare | |
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| Political and strategic failure | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The nineteenth century, I: a strategic view | |
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| Introduction: the reach of strategic history | |
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| A violent century | |
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| Implications of the Industrial Revolution: the strategic tale | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The nineteenth century, II: technology, warfare and international order | |
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| Introduction: Waterloo to the Marne | |
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| Weapons and warfare | |
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| Politics and strategic history | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| World War I, I: controversies | |
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| Introduction: the making of the twentieth century | |
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| A contested history | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| World War I, II: modern warfare | |
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| Introduction: education by experience | |
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| The course of the war | |
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| Modern warfare | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The twenty-year armistice, 1919-39 | |
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| Introduction: contrasting decades | |
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| Versailles and the legacy of the Great War | |
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| The changing political context: strategic implications | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The mechanization of war | |
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| Introduction: revolution in military affairs | |
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| Land warfare | |
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| Air power | |
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| Sea power | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| World War II in Europe, I: the structure and course of total war | |
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| Introduction: total war | |
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| The structure of the war | |
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| The course of the war | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| World War II in Europe, II: understanding the war | |
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| Introduction: what was the war about? | |
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| Hitler's war | |
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| Warfare, 1939-45 | |
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| Why did Germany lose? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| World War II in Asia-Pacific, I: Japan and the politics of empire | |
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| Introduction: global war | |
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| The Japanese bid for empire | |
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| Japan and the United States: the drift to war | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| World War II in Asia-Pacific, II: strategy and warfare | |
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| Introduction: over the cliff | |
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| Japanese strategy | |
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| American strategy | |
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| The end for Japan | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Cold War, I: politics and ideology | |
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| Introduction: from war to peace - the consequences of World War II | |
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| From cold peace to Cold War | |
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| The Cold War reconsidered | |
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| Some interim judgements | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Cold War, II: the nuclear revolution | |
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| Introduction: the strategic challenge | |
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| The bomb | |
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| The nuclear revolution | |
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| Nuclear strategy | |
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| The nuclear arms competition | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| War and peace after the Cold War: an interwar decade | |
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| Introduction: the interwar thesis | |
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| A unipolar world | |
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| 'New wars' and 'old wars': a bloody decade | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| 9/11 and the age of terror | |
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| Introduction: the return of a master narrative | |
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| 9/11: World War III? | |
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| Warfare: from the Industrial Age to the Information Age | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Irregular warfare: guerrillas, insurgents and terrorists | |
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| Introduction: two kinds of warfare | |
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| Guerrilla warfare, insurgency and terrorism | |
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| Irregular warfare: an overview | |
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| Terrorism and counter-terrorism | |
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| Al Qaeda and the 'New Terrorism' | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| War, peace and international order | |
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| Introduction: war-peace cycle | |
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| New world orders | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusion: must future strategic history resemble the past? | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |