"A Bison book."

Book INature of the Military in the Renaissance -- I. Establishment of a European Infantry 3 -- II. Firearms 23 -- III. Tactics of the Spear Units 53 -- IV. Internal Organization of the Mercenary Armies 59 -- V. Individual Battles 73 -- VI. Machiavelli 101 -- Book II Period of the Wars of Religion -- I. Transformation of Knights into Cavalry 117 -- II. Increase in Numbers of Marksmen. Refinement of Infantry Tactics 147 -- III. Maurice of Orange 155 -- IV. Gustavus Adolphus 173 -- V. Cromwell 185 -- VI. Individual Battles 193 -- Book III Period of Standing Armies -- I. France 227 -- II. Brandenburg-Prussia 241 -- III. Drills. Changes in Tactics in the Eighteenth Century 269 -- IV. Strategy 293 -- V. Strategic Sketches and Individual Battles 319 -- VI. Frederick as a Strategist 369 -- Book IV Period of National Armies -- I. Revolution and Invasion 387 -- II. Revolutionary Armies 395 -- Generals of the Republic and Napoleon's Marshals 417 -- III. Napoleonic Strategy 421 -- IV. Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Clausewitz 449.