Strategic contexts in the eighteenth century -- The strategies of continental empires: 1400-1850 -- The reach for world empire: Britain, 1689-1815 -- The rise of Republican strategies: 1775-1800 -- Napoleon and others: 1790-1914 -- The United States in the nineteenth century: 1812-98 -- Europe and the world question: 1816-1913 -- Strategies for World War: 1900-18 -- Strategies for total war: 1919-45 -- Strategies for Cold War: 1945-89 -- Strategies for the current world: 1990