Introduction : on strategy / Williamson Murray and Mark Grimsley -- Athenian strategy in the Peloponnesian War / Donald Kagan -- The strategy of a warrior-state : Rome and the wars against Carthage, 264-201 B.C. / Alvin H. Bernstein -- Chinese strategy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries / Arthur Waldron -- The making of strategy in Habsburg Spain : Philip II's "bid for mastery," 1556-1598 / Geoffrey Parker -- The origins of a global strategy : England from 1558 to 1713 / William S. Maltby -- A quest for glory : the formation of strategy under Louis XIV, 1661-1715 / John A. Lynn -- To the edge of greatness : the United States, 1783-1865 / Peter Maslowski -- Strategic uncertainties of a nation-state : Prussia-Germany, 1871-1918 / Holger H. Herwig -- The weary titan : strategy and policy in Great Britain, 1890-1918 / John Gooch -- The strategy of the decisive weight : Italy, 1882-1922 / Brian R. Sullivan -- The road to ideological war : Germany, 1918-1945 / Wilhelm Deist -- The collapse of empire : British strategy, 1919-1945 / Williamson Murray -- The strategy of innocence? The United States, 1920-1945 / Eliot A. Cohen -- The illusion of security : France, 1919-1940 / Robert A. Doughty -- Strategy for class war : the Soviet Union, 1917-1941 / Earl F. Ziemke -- The evolution of Israeli strategy : the psychology of insecurity and the quest for absolute security / Michael I. Handel -- Strategy in the nuclear age : the United States, 1945-1991 / Colin S. Gray -- Conclusion : continuity and revolution in the making of strategy / MacGregor Knox
This volume focuses on the processes by which rulers and states have framed strategy from the fifth century B.C. to the present
