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This is a pure and vivid history of Western military operations and one of the most representative military history masterpieces in the United States today. The author traces and analyzes Western war thinking, from the ancient Greek era 2,500 years ago to the age of muskets, using the basic four-arms system of land warfare as a matrix of mutual restraint. The author analyzes the characteristics of the four systems in different eras (the stirrup-less era, the stirrup era, and the musket era) and different systems, as well as the resulting changes in the restraint relationship of the arms matrix, thereby explaining the facts and laws of the changes in tactics and arms in each era. This book has many things in common with Carl von Clausewitz's "On War" and Antoine Henry Jomini's "The Art of War", including Mao Zedong's guerrilla warfare thoughts, which also had a major influence on the author. The book has a complete system, rich content and strong theoretical basis. It is a classic masterpiece on the art of Western war.