Isabelle Duyvesteyn is Professor of International Studies/Global History at the Institute of History at Leiden University. Between 2012 and 2017 she held the Special Chair in Strategic Studies at the Political Science Institute of Leiden University. Between 2008 and 2012 she was a member of the national Advisory Council for International Affairs assigned to advise the Netherlands government on issues of peace and security and between 2012 and 2021, she was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Netherlands Defence Academy. Beatrice Heuser holds the Chair of International Relations at the University of Glasgow, seconded to the General Staff College of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg as section chief for Strategy. She has worked at NATO Headquarters as a Consultant. She has served on academic advisory boards of the Royal United Services Institute, the French Institute of International Affairs (IFRI), and the French government's strategic studies think tank IRSEM.

'… readers of this imposing work are challenged to think long and hard about strategy from a global perspective. It is to be anticipated that this work will lead to more than a few reconsiderations of how we view strategy, whether as a universal concept, or a series of specific solutions related to societal factors, culture, time and geographical space. In short, this is a stimulating collection of contributions which comes highly recommended for both students and those researching strategy.' Alaric Searle, International Journal of Military History and Historiography

• 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.