This 36-chapter volume explores military history from the Russo-Japanese War to today.

1. The Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
2. Europe's Path to World War
3. 1914: Strategies, War Plans, and Opening Moves
4. Stalemate and Response, 1914-15
5. Grand Strategies--Strategic Alternatives, 1915
6. 1916: Industrial War and Battles of Attrition
7. Political Challenges and Strategic Reevaluation, 1917
8. 1918: The Year of Decision
9. WWI: Overwhelming the Germans and Victory.
10. The Continental Powers in the Interwar Period
11. The United Kingdom, Japan, and United States in the Interwar Period
12. German Years of Victory
13. Britain Stands Alone
14. The Germans Turn East: Operation Barbarossa and the Beginnings of the Final Solution
15. Japan Strikes: From Pearl Harbor to Midway
16. The Allies Turn the Tide
17. Peoples and Economies at War
18. Strategic Seapower and Airpower
19. Waging Global War
20. Victory in Europe
21. Defeat of Japan
22. Occupation - Demobilization - Assessing Victory
23. The Cold War 1945-1973: Containment and the Nuclear Era.
24. The Korean Civil War and American Intervention, 1945-1950
25. Fighting and Ending the Korean Conflict
26. The Wars of Decolonization
27. From Israeli Blitzkrieg to Machdal (The Blunder)
28. Revolutionary War in Southeast Asia, 1954-1965
29. American Escalation in Vietnam, 1965-1967
30. American De-escalation in Vietnam, 1968-1972
31. Victory and Defeat in Vietnam
32. Encountering and Responding to Limits: The Superpowers in the Cold War, 1968-1991
33. Peace Dividends and Benevolent Interventions
34. People's Wars and Israel, 1982-2006
35. Three Iraq Wars: 1980 to 2011
36. Afghanistan: Thirty Years of War and Counting