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| Preface | |
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| List of Maps | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Iron Dice | |
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| The Kaiser's Fateful Pledge | |
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| The Austrian Ultimatum to Serbia | |
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| The Closing Trap | |
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| The Iron Dice | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Barbarossa | |
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| Hitler and Russia | |
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| Stalin and Germany | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| The Temptations of Victory: Korea | |
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| President Truman's Decision | |
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| General MacArthur's Gamble | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Afterthoughts: Fifty Years Later | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| A Greek Tragedy in Five Acts: Vietnam | |
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| Truman-Asia was not Europe | |
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| Eisenhower-The Lesson of France Ignored | |
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| Kennedy-The Military | |
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| Johnson-The Catastrophe | |
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| Nixon-Full Circle | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| From Sarajevo to Kosovo: The War over the Remains of Yugoslavia | |
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| The Dismemberment of Yugoslavia Begins | |
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| The War in Bosnia | |
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| The Tide Turns against the Serbs | |
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| The Dayton Peace Accords | |
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| The UN War Crimes Tribunal | |
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| Kosovo: The War against Europe's Last Dictator | |
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| Conclusion: A New Dawn of Peace with Justice? | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Four Battles over God: India and Pakistan in 1947, 1965, 1971, 1998 | |
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| Colonialism, Partition, and War | |
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| The Kashmir War of 1965 | |
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| The Bloody Dawn of Bangladesh | |
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| Nuclear Viagra | |
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| A Natural Disaster Rekindles Hope | |
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| Fear Trumps Hope, Once Again | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| The Sixty Years' War in the Holy Land: Israel and the Arabs | |
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| The Palestine War of 1948 | |
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| The Sinai Campaign and the Suez Crisis of 1956 | |
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| The Six-Day War of 1967 | |
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| The October War of 1973 | |
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| The Lebanese Tragedy | |
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| The Palestinian Uprising | |
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| The Peace Process: Between Fear and Hope | |
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| The Second Palestinian Uprising and the Road Map | |
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| History Interrupted | |
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| "Giving War a Chance:" America, Israel and Hezbollah | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Saddam Hussein's Wars against Iran and Kuwait | |
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| The Iran-Iraq War: The Price of Martyrdom | |
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| Saddam's Aggression against Kuwait | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| New Wars for a New Century: America and the World of Islam | |
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| George W. Bush: From Pragmatist to Crusader | |
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| War Drums | |
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| The "War after the War": Dilemmas of Occupation | |
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| The Capture of Saddam | |
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| Mission Accomplished? | |
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| Elections in Iraq | |
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| The Descent into Civil War | |
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| Law and Society Under Islam: Three Vignettes | |
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| Afghanistan: A Resurgent Taliban | |
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| Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: The Holocaust as Myth and a World without Israel | |
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| A New Threat from Iran | |
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| The Trial of Saddam Hussein | |
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| Reflections on Iraq's Past and Future | |
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| What Went Wrong? | |
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| What Can Be Done to Set Things Right? | |
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| Conclusion: Perils of Empire | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Why Nations Go to War | |
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| The Determinants of War | |
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| Heart of Darkness: Rwanda and Darfur | |
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| Learning from History | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Index | |