"With an international team of subject experts, Volume I offers a history of the practice of strategy from the beginning of recorded history, complemented by archaeology, to the late 18th century, throughout the world. This volume addresses how strategy was formulated and applied, and with what tools; Focusing on the period from 1800 to the present, Volume II showcases a diverse set of case studies to illustrate the practice of strategy in different places around the globe"--

1. Introduction; 2. The strategies of the Napoleonic wars Alan Forrest; 3. Guerrilla and nineteenth-century strategies of insurgency Ian Beckett; 4. Russia, 1870-1917 Andrey Pavlov; 5. The American civil war Donald Stoker; 6. The use of naval power Andrew Lambert; 7. The Russo-Japanese war Rotem Kowner; 8. Chinese strategy 1926-1949 Christopher Yung; 9. First world war Robert Foley; 10. Russia civil war - till 1945 Nikita Lomagin; 11. Air power Frans Osinga; 12. The second world war in Europe Guillaume Piketty; 13. The second world war in the Asia Pacific David Horner; 14. Soviet strategy, 1945-1989 Laurien Crump; 15. People's war and wars of decolonisation Mathilde von Bülow; 16. Nuclear strategies Jeffrey Michaels; 17. America's way of war Antulio Echevarria; 18. The Korean war Xiaobing Li; 19. Israel's wars Eitan Shamir and Eado Hecht; 20. The India-Pakistan confrontations Sumit Ganguly; 21. The Yugoslav wars, 1991-1999 James Gow; 22. Terrorism and insurgency Colin Clarke; 23. The forty year war in Afghanistan Jan Angstrom; 24. The three Gulf wars and Iraq Ahmed Hashim; 25. China's wars, 1950-2021 Christopher Yung; 26. Conclusion Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Beatrice Heuser and Samuel Zilincik.