MATTHEW HUGHES is Senior Lecturer in History at Brunel University, UK, and editor of the Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. WILLIAM J. PHILPOTT is Senior Lecturer in War Studies in the Department of War Studies at King's College London, UK. He is editor of the Palgrave Macmillan series Studies in Military and Strategic History.

• Introduction; M.Hughes & W.J.Philpott Military Revolutions and Military History; L.Henninger Warfare and the Rise of the State; A.James War and Society; M.Neiberg Military Thought from Machiavelli to Liddell Hart; N.Gardner Tactics, Operations and Strategy: The Evolution of Land Warfare from Machiavelli to Desert Storm; W.Chinn Low-Intensity Conflicts, Insurgency, Terrorism and Revolutionary War; J.Cann Total War; W.J.Philpott Air Power; J.Buckley Naval Warfare; A.Lambert Non-European Warfare; B.Vandervort Imperial Military History; P.Stanley Science, Technology and War; M.Hughes New Military History; J.Bourke