Volume 1: Introduction to Volume I: The Practice of Strategy Isabelle Duyvesteyn and Beatrice Heuser; 1. China to 180 CE Peter Lorge; 2. Teispid and Achaemenid Persia (c. 550-330 BCE) John Hyland; 3. Ancient Greece: strategy of the city states (500-400 BCE) Roel Konijnendijk; 4. Philip II and Alexander III and the Macedonian Empire Andrew Fear; 5. Ancient Rome before Augustus (753-27 BCE) Louis Rawlings; 6. China 180-1127 CE David Graff; 7. Ancient Rome: principate and dominate (27 BCE-630 AD) Michael Whitby; 8. The Gupta Empire (400-500 CE) Kaushik Roy; 9. The Sassanian Empire's strategies Katarzyna Maksymiuk; 10. The Rashidun (632-661), Umayyad (661-750) and Abbasid (750-1258) Caliphates Mehdi Kurgan Kader; 11. Byzantine strategy (630-1204 CE) Georgios Chatzelis; 12. Strategies in the wars of western Europe, 476-c. 1000 John France; 13. The later Middle Ages Sophie Therese Ambler; 14. Chinggis Khan and the Mongol Empire 1206-1368 CE Timothy May; 15. Hindu and Buddhist polities of pre/early-modern mainland southeast Asia (1100-1800) Tassapa Umavijani; 16. Pre-Columbian Native American wars Patricia M. Lambert; 17. Ottoman expansionism 1300-1823 Mesut Uyar; 18. Strategy in the wars of pre-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa Giacomo Macola and John Burton Kegel; 19. Strategy/ies of the Mughal Empire Pratyay Nath; 20. China 1368-1911 Kenneth Swope; 21. Early modern Europe: the Habsburgs and their enemies, 1519-1659 David Parrott; 22. Naval strategies Andri van Vliet; 23. The strategy of Louis XIV Jamel Ostwald; 24. Hohenzollern strategy under Frederick II Adam Storring; 25. American warfare in the eighteenth century Stephen Conway; Overview Beatrice Heuser and Isabelle Duyvesteyn; Volume 2: 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.