Introduction / Williamson Murray
1. The strategic thought of Themistocles / Victor Davis Hanson
2. The grand strategy of the Roman Empire / James Lacey
3. Giraldus Cembrensis, Edward I, and the conquest of Wales / Clifford J. Rogers
4. Creating the British way of war : English strategy in the War of the Spanish Succession / Jamel Otswald
5. Failed, broken, or galvanized? Prussia and 1806 / Dennis Showalter
6. Victory by trial and error : Britain's struggle against Napoleon / Richard Hart Sinnreich
7. The strategy of Lincoln and Grant / Wayne Hsieh
8. Bismarckian strategic policy, 1871-90 / Marcus Jones
9. Dowding and the British strategy of air defense, 1936-40 / Colin Gray
10. US naval strategy and Japan / Williamson Murray
11. US grand strategy in World War II / Peter R. Mansoor
12. American grand strategy and the unfolding of the Cold War, 1945-61 / Bradford A. Lee
13. The Reagan administration's strategy toward the Soviet Union / Thomas G. Mahnken
Afterword / Richard Hart Sinnreich.
Successful strategies : triumphing in war and peace from antiquity to the present. ISBN 9781107633599. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.