Generalship -- Napoleon as strategist -- Napoleon as coalition general -- Campaigning - Napoleon and the operational art -- Napoleon on the battlefield -- Rear area security and counter-insurgency -- Logistics, pillage and plunder -- Case study I: Exporting revolution, 1793-7: Napoleon's first essay in generalship -- Case study 2: The conquest of prussia 1806: Napoleon at the height of his powers -- Case study 3: from Dresden to the battle of the nations, 1813: the beginning of the end -- Conclusions.