Chronology -- Grand strategy : a framework for analysis -- Athens and Sparta : power structures, early conflict, and the causes of war -- Periclean grand strategy -- Spartan grand strategy -- Thucydides and strategy in perspective -- Annex: Strategic concepts in Thucydides.
"This volume details the strategic concepts at work within the History of the Peloponnesian War and demonstrates how, through case studies of recent conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, Thucydidean thought remains vital to the analysis to strategic operations"--Jacket.