| Introduction | p. ix |
| Selected Bibliography | p. lxxx |
| Note on the Text | p. lxxxiv |
| Preface | p. 3 |
| p. 7 |
| In Cosimo Rucellai's garden, Fabrizio Colonna starts discussing the art of war | p. 8 |
| Imitation of the ancients | p. 11 |
| Honest men should not make war their sole profession | p. 14 |
| No prince or republic should allow citizens to make war their sole profession | p. 17 |
| Where the best soldiers are to be found | p. 22 |
| Should they be recruited from urban or rural areas | p. 27 |
| Pros and cons of a militia | p. 28 |
| What sort of men should be in an army | p. 33 |
| How the Romans raised their legions | p. 35 |
| Should a militia be large or small | p. 37 |
| Preventing disorders militias may occasion | p. 40 |
| Raising and paying a cavalry | p. 43 |
| p. 44 |
| The ancients' arms and armor | p. 44 |
| Contemporary arms and armor; the pike | p. 46 |
| Which arming methods are better | p. 47 |
| Arming the infantry; necessity for cavalry | p. 50 |
| Which is the more dependable | p. 52 |
| Ancient and contemporary drills | p. 56 |
| Forming a regiment; its battalions and companies | p. 61 |
| Three principal means of arranging battalions in battle formation | p. 65 |
| Regrouping a battalion and making it face about | p. 69 |
| Formation for a lateral attack | p. 70 |
| Forming a winged and hollow-square battalion | p. 71 |
| A battalion's baggage, officers, and music | p. 74 |
| Digression on military virtue and its rarity today | p. 76 |
| Number of cavalry necessary for a regiment | p. 81 |
| p. 83 |
| Roman battle formation | p. 84 |
| Macedonian, Roman, and Swiss formations | p. 85 |
| Advisability of combining Greek and Roman methods | p. 86 |
| Number of men in Roman army | p. 87 |
| Recommendation for drawing up a regiment or army | p. 88 |
| Description of a mock battle | p. 92 |
| Reasons for its various maneuvers | p. 95 |
| Army's general exercises | p. 105 |
| p. 110 |
| Precautions and devices useful in drawing up an army, during action, and after battle | p. 111 |
| Two other formations | p. 121 |
| When a general should engage | p. 122 |
| Rules generals should observe | p. 124 |
| Avoiding battles | p. 125 |
| Inspiring and calming an army | p. 126 |
| Utility of religion in an army | p. 128 |
| Making men fight | p. 129 |
| p. 130 |
| Roman and contemporary means for marching through enemy territory | p. 130 |
| Forming and defending an army in battle formation | p. 131 |
| Giving commands | p. 138 |
| Provisioning an army | p. 139 |
| Dividing spoils | p. 140 |
| Avoiding ambushes | p. 142 |
| A general's familiarity with terrain: necessity for; means of acquiring | p. 143 |
| Other marching precautions | p. 144 |
| Fording a river; avoiding battle while so doing | p. 146 |
| Avoiding enemy traps in passes | p. 147 |
| p. 150 |
| How Greeks and Romans chose camp sites | p. 150 |
| Setting up camp | p. 152 |
| Guarding a camp | p. 161 |
| Ancient military justice | p. 163 |
| Ancient regulations: women and gambling | p. 165 |
| Striking camp | p. 165 |
| Other considerations ancients used in choosing camp sites | p. 166 |
| Providing against famine | p. 167 |
| Encamping 2 to 4 regiments | p. 168 |
| Number of men needed to engage | p. 169 |
| How some generals escaped an enemy | p. 170 |
| Creating dissension in enemy ranks | p. 173 |
| Suppressing mutiny and discord | p. 174 |
| Advisability of letting the enemy become despondent | p. 176 |
| Securing a town suspected of disloyalty | p. 178 |
| Fighting in winter | p. 180 |
| p. 183 |
| Building and fortifying towns | p. 183 |
| Defending a besieged town | p. 185 |
| Advice to besieged and besieger | p. 192 |
| Trusting appearances | p. 194 |
| Drawing out a besieged garrison | p. 195 |
| Corrupting and suprising a town | p. 196 |
| Guarding a besieged town | p. 197 |
| Communicating with the outside | p. 198 |
| Repairing and defending a breach | p. 199 |
| Mines and subterranean passages | p. 199 |
| Not dividing your men | p. 200 |
| Exposure to an assault | p. 201 |
| General rules of military discipline | p. 202 |
| Obtaining sufficient horses | p. 205 |
| New devices and the general's use | p. 205 |
| Conclusion | p. 206 |
| Diagrams | p. 213 |
| Dedicatory Epistle to Elizabeth I | p. 231 |
| Index | p. 239 |
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