Reddit reviews Strategy: Second Revised Edition (Meridian)

Liddel Hart's Strategy. Its used at west point in military history classes. Hart is an uninspiring historian but a brilliant strategist.

A great question. And I can see that there are now two Mongo experts in the field of battle!

Subutai/Tusobodai as he was actually called, overran more territory than any known commander in the history of warfare.^1

He did this through his sheer brilliance in logistical and imaginative strategy. If Genghis Khan was the soul of the Mongolian Empire through its rise. One can argue that it was Subotai who later wielded the sword that allowed the Mongolians to conquer nearly half of Europe, nearly all of Asia and the only nation thus far to have defeated the descendants of the Russian people (The Empire of Rus)

Subutai also used unconventional tactics that at our age would seem very normal and common sense, but Subutai would later be recorded as arguably the very first commander to use Siege weapons in an offensive manner in a non-siege battle. You could almost say that he was the first to use artillery in the ancient world.^2

If you have any more questions I can definitely answer them too!!

It's a great question.

1. Subutai and his records
   
   
2. Siege Warfare and Subutai's first recorded usage
   
   
3. Also
   
   

Strategy by B.H. Liddell Hart sounds perfect for you. It's pretty dense but very detailed.

https://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Meridian-B-Liddell-Hart/dp/0452010713

A flippant response might read "Your list, with 'The Annotated' [0 - 4] prepended to each entry". Less glibly, I concur with /u/dvdvh, that it is necessary to build a broad recognition of the landscape of history before one goes exploring the geological forces that shaped it. This can be accomplished by picking your favorite time, place, or culture, querying a suitable encyclopedia entry, taking notes if desired, and expanding from there; I personally find the histories of Hungary [5] and Uzbekistan (Sogdiana/Transoxiana) [6] to hold criminally low profiles in the lay-historian's mindset.

For historical perspectives orthogonal to any one physical dimension, I would recommend military histories, which, truer to your own suggestions, can be classical original sources, e.g. Xenophon's "Anabasis" [7], so long as one is willing to research details assumed known by the authors. B. H. Liddell Hart's "Strategy" [8] specifically takes the position that military science prerequisites a knowledge of precedents, and so provides it.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Homer-Annotated-H-ebook/dp/B005Y0MWUC

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Divine-Comedy-Translated-Annotated-Illustrated-ebook/dp/B00SIWHOWO

[2] On this point I must bend "The Annotated" to "The Reader's Companion to": https://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Companion-Cervantes-Companions-Literature/dp/0521663873

[3] https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/019953621X/

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky-Annotated-critical-Biography-ebook/dp/B0057JQ206

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hungary

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Uzbekistan

[7] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Anabasis

[8] https://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Meridian-B-Liddell-Hart/dp/0452010713

Strategy: The Indirect Approach - by B. H. Liddell Hart - this was required reading for Israeli military officers for many years.