| Preface to the Second Edition | |
| Preface | |
| From Dynastic to National Warfare, 1775-1815 | p. 1 |
| Dynastic Warfare | p. 1 |
| Armies | p. 1 |
| Navies | p. 7 |
| The War of the American Revolution, 1775-83 | p. 12 |
| The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815 | p. 19 |
| Ideas Borrowed from the Old Royal Army before 1789 | p. 19 |
| The Wars of the French Revolution and the Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1789-1802 | p. 22 |
| Napoleon and the Imperial Army at Zenith, 1804-7 | p. 27 |
| The Decline of French Fortunes in the West and the Anglo-American War of 1812 | p. 29 |
| The Decline of Napoleon's Fortunes in the East, the First Abdication, and the Return of the Hundred Days, 1808-15 | p. 35 |
| The Nineteenth Century, 1815-71 | p. 43 |
| Armies | p. 43 |
| The Long Peace and Military Thought | p. 43 |
| The Technological Revolution in Land Warfare | p. 48 |
| The Prussian General Staff, the Nation-in-Arms, and the Kesselschlacht Doctrine | p. 50 |
| Navies | p. 54 |
| The Mid-Nineteenth Century Wars before 1861 | p. 58 |
| The American Civil War, 1861-65 | p. 68 |
| The Opposing Sides | p. 68 |
| Tactics on Land | p. 70 |
| Naval Tactics and Coast Defense | p. 76 |
| Geography and Strategy | p. 78 |
| The Strategic Direction | p. 80 |
| The Eastern Theater to May 1864 | p. 81 |
| The Western Theater to May 1864 | p. 87 |
| The Final Campaigns, May 1864-April 1865 | p. 91 |
| The Wars of German Unification, 1864-71 | p. 94 |
| The Wars with Denmark and Austria, 1864-66 | p. 94 |
| The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71 | p. 98 |
| The March Toward World War, 1871-1914 | p. 102 |
| Armies | p. 102 |
| The Spread of the German System and the Technology of Land Warfare | p. 102 |
| The Alliance Systems and Contingency War Plans | p. 105 |
| The Anglo-American Military Experience to 1914 | p. 112 |
| Navies | p. 113 |
| The Challenge of the Jeune Ecole to 1889 | p. 113 |
| The Mahanite School of Naval Power, 1890-1914 | p. 115 |
| Technical Developments in Navies, 1890-1914 | p. 117 |
| The Wars, 1871-1914 | p. 120 |
| The Russo-Turkish War and Tensions among the Great Powers, 1877-78 | p. 120 |
| The Overseas Colonial Wars | p. 121 |
| The Spanish-American War, 1898 | p. 126 |
| The Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars | p. 128 |
| The Final Wars and Crises before 1914 | p. 132 |
| The First World War, 1914-18 | p. 134 |
| The Outbreak and the Stalemate of 1914 | p. 134 |
| The Outbreak of War | p. 134 |
| The Opening Battles and Stalemate in the West, 1914 | p. 135 |
| The Opening Battles and Stalemate on the Eastern Front, 1914 | p. 142 |
| The War at Sea, 1914 | p. 144 |
| The Search for Victory, 1915-16 | p. 146 |
| Allied Strategy and Operations, 1915 | p. 146 |
| German Strategy in 1915 | p. 147 |
| The War at Sea, 1915 | p. 148 |
| The War on Land, 1916 | p. 149 |
| The War at Sea, 1916 | p. 151 |
| The Rise of Air Power | p. 152 |
| The Development of Armored Fighting Vehicles | p. 155 |
| The Years of Decision, 1917-18 | p. 158 |
| The 1917 U-Boat Campaign and America's Entry into the War | p. 158 |
| The Russian Collapse, the French Mutiny, and New German Methods of Land Warfare | p. 162 |
| British Failures and Successes in 1917 | p. 164 |
| The Ludendorff Offensives, March-July 1918 | p. 164 |
| Foch's Offensives to the End of the War, July-November 1918 | p. 167 |
| Between the World Wars, 1919-39 | p. 172 |
| The Failure of the Treaty Approach | p. 172 |
| Armies | p. 176 |
| Navies | p. 180 |
| Air Forces | p. 185 |
| Electronic Warfare | p. 189 |
| The Wars between the World Wars | p. 191 |
| The Second World War, 1939-45 | p. 195 |
| Hitler's War, 1939-41 | p. 195 |
| The German Armed Forces to the Eve of War | p. 195 |
| The War from Poland to the Channel, September 1939-June 1940 | p. 197 |
| From the Armistice of Campiegne to the Battle of Moscow, June 1940-December 1941 | p. 208 |
| The European War, 1942-45 | p. 219 |
| From Moscow to Sicily, January 1942-July 1943 | p. 219 |
| The U-Boat War, the Allied Strategic Air Offensive, and Hitler's V-Weapons | p. 223 |
| From Sicily to the Liberation of France, August 1943-August 1944 | p. 227 |
| The Final Battles and the Defeat of Nazi Germany, September 1944-May 1945 | p. 235 |
| The Pacific War, 1941-45 | p. 240 |
| The Road to Pearl Harbor | p. 240 |
| From Pearl Harbor to Midway, December 1941-June 1942 | p. 244 |
| The Campaigns for Guadalcanal and Papua, August 1942-February 1943 | p. 247 |
| The Twin-Axis Strategy and the Drive to the Philippines to June 1944 | p. 250 |
| The Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, October 1944-June 1945 | p. 255 |
| The Atomic Bomb, Russian Intervention, and the End of the Pacific War, August-September 1945 | p. 261 |
| The China-Burma-India Theater and the Close of the War for East Asia | p. 262 |
| World War II and the Patterns of War | p. 264 |
| The Patterns of the Cold War, 1945-89, and their Aftermath | p. 266 |
| The Early Cold War, 1945-50 | p. 266 |
| The Korean War, 1950-53 | p. 270 |
| The Eisenhower Years, 1953-60 | p. 279 |
| The Vietnam War Era, 1961-75 | p. 288 |
| The Strategic Race with the USSR in the 1960s | p. 288 |
| The Vietnam War from 1961 to 1968 | p. 292 |
| The Final Phase of the Vietnam War, 1969-75 | p. 298 |
| The U.S.-Sino-Soviet Detente, 1972 | p. 301 |
| The Arab-Israeli Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War, 1967 and 1973 | p. 301 |
| The Cold War and Other Wars, 1975-89 | p. 307 |
| The Continuing Arab-Israeli Problem | p. 307 |
| Intensification of the Cold War | p. 307 |
| The Wars of the Late 1970s and 1980s | p. 310 |
| The Close of the Cold War | p. 314 |
| Desert Storm: The U.N.'s War with Iraq, 1991 | p. 317 |
| Epilogue | p. 324 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 327 |
| Index | p. 349 |
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