Includes maps of: Ulm March-maneuver, 1805 - Operational Encirclement of Mack's Austrian Army; Vicksburg Campaign, 1864; Schlieffen Plan; Battle of Tannenberg, 1914; Gorlice-Tarnow (Gorlitse Tarnuv) Operation, 2 May-23 June 1915; Kiev Maneuvers, 1935 - Large-scale Employment of Airborne Forces; German Invasion of France, 1940; Normandy Campaign, 1944; Broad and Narrow Fronts, Northwest Europe, 1945; Operation Lam Son 719, February-March 1971; Isreali Counterattack towards the Suez Canal, October 1973; Israeli Breakout on the African Side of the Canal; Jijiga Operation, March 1977; American Raid beyond the Vistula - Russian Maneuvers in Poland, 1876; Operations of General Gurko's Forward Detachment in 1877; Mishchenko's Raid, December 1904-January 1905; East Prussia, 1914 - Russian and German Rail Networks and Possible Strategic Raid; Mamontov's Raid, August-September 1919; Kiev Operation, Soviet-Polish War, 1920; Zhitomir Breakthrough; Coalescence of a Mobile Group in the Enemy Rear, 10th Army in the Moscow Counteroffensive, 6-20 December 1941; Battle of Stalingrad and the Middle Don Operation, 1942; Cutting the Air Reinforcement and Resupply Route - Middle Don Operation, 16-30 December 1942; Cutting the Supply Line to the Stalingrad Pocket - 24th Tank Corps' Objective - the Air and Railheads at Tatsinskaya; Svir-Petrozavodsk Operation, 20 June-9 August 1944, 7th Army Sector; Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, August 1945; Masters of War upon the Stage of the World - the Mongol Conquests and those of Tamerland; Mongol Invasion of Europe, 1241; Lam Son Rebellion and the Tot Dong-Chuc Dong Battle, 1426; Conquests of Nadir Shah; Nadir Shah's Encirclement of Khyber Pass and Attack from the Rear, 1738; Taiping Rebellion, 1851-1864, Showing Long Marches of the Taipings; Positions of Rebel Groups at the End of the Taiping Rebellion, 1866; Dien Bien Phu, 1954.

Ground rules -- Technics and warfare -- The expansion of the battlefield and the operational level of war, 1800-1918 -- Air-land battle, 1918-77 -- case study one : corps volant to OMG : the practical utility of military history -- Case study two : don't get involved in a land war in Asia -- Some conclusions and prognoses.