Genesis of the infantry 600-350 BC ; From phalanx to legion 350-250 BC ; The Roman way of war 250 BC-AD 300 / Victor Davis Hanson

On Roman ramparts 300-1300 / Bernard S. Bachrach

New weapons, new tactics 1300-1500 / Christopher Allmand

The gunpowder revolution 1300-1500 ; Ships of the line 1500-1650 / Geoffrey Parker

Conquest of the Americas 1500-1650 / Patricia Seed

Dynastic war 1494-1660 / Geoffrey Parker

States in conflict 1661-1763 ; Nations in arms 1763-1815 / John A. Lynn

The industrialization of war 1815-71 ; Towards world war 1871-1914 ; The West at war 1914-18 ; The world in conflict 1919-41 ; The world at war 1941-45 ; The post-war world 1945-95 / Williamson A. Murray

Epilogue : the future of Western warfare / Geoffrey Parker.