List of military writers

The following is a list of military writers, alphabetical by last name:

• Stephen Ambrose.
• David Bercuson.
• Lazare Carnot.
• Nigel Cawthorne, author of POW histories, The Bamboo Cage, The Iron Cage
• Chanakya, author, Arthashastra.
• Robert M. Citino, author, German Way of War, Quest for Decisive Victory, Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm, Death of the Wehrmacht, several others.
• Tom Clancy, author, Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, Net Force, others.
• Carl von Clausewitz, General, author, On War.
• Menno van Coehoorn.
• John Colomb.
• Julian Corbett, Edwardian British Naval theorist, author, Some Principles of Maritime Strategy.
• Martin van Creveld, expanded theory of war proponent.
• Arthur Currie.
• Antoine de Jomini
• Giulio Douhet
• Mikhail Dragomirov, Russian military theoretician.
• Ardant du Picq, French military theorist, author, Battle Studies.
• Gwynne Dyer
• Jeff Edwards, author, Torpedo.
• Alonso de Ercilla author, La Araucana.
• Bernard Fall
• Frederick II of Prussia
• Ferdinand Foch.
• Sextus Julius Frontinus, author, Stratagemata.
• J.F.C. Fuller, theoretician of tank warfare.
• Paul Fussell.
• Pierre Marie Gallois.
• Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, 19th century general and theorist.
• Jack Granatstein.
• Robert Greene (The 33 Strategies of War, The 48 Laws of Power).
• George Grivas
• Heinz Guderian, German general, developed principles of Blitzkrieg, author of Achtung Panzer!
• Ernesto Che Guevara, Argentinian revolutionary, diary outlined the guerrilla war being fought in Bolivia.
• Bruce Barrymore Halpenny, Airfields, World War Two, Bomber & Fighter Command
• Herodotus.
• Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert.
• Liu Ji, co-author, Huolongjing.
• Michael Johns, foreign policy and national security analyst and writer.
• Antoine Henri Jomini, General, wrote on the Napoleonic Wars including Precis de l'Art de la Guerre (Precis on the Art of War) and Traité des grandes opérations militaires (Treatise on Grand Military Operations).
• Josephus, author The Wars of the Jews.
• Herman Kahn
• John Keegan, military historian.
• Paul Kennedy
• Howard Kippenberger, New Zealand General and military historian.
• Henry Kissinger.
• Shen Kuo (Dream Pool Essays).
• Wang Li the Master of Ghost Valley.
• John Knox Laughton.
• T. E. Lawrence.
• B. H. Liddell-Hart, proponent of the "indirect approach", influential in all 20th century military thinking.
• Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine emperor (Taktika).
• Zhuge Liang, famous strategist from The Three Kingdoms era (Thirty-Six Stratagems).
• B. H. Liddell-Hart, proponent of the "indirect approach", influential in all 20th century military thinking.
• Stephen B. Luce.
• Edward Luttwack, theorist, identified the 'Dynamic Paradox' of strategy.
• Douglas Macgregor.
• Niccolò Machiavelli, political theorist, author of The Prince and Dell'arte della guerra (The Art of War).
• Alfred Thayer Mahan, naval strategist.
• Dennis Hart Mahan, military theorist and Engineering professor at West Point, wrote Advanced Guard, Outpost and Detachment Service of Troops, with essential Principles of Strategy and Grand Tactics, commonly known as Outpost.
• Erich von Manstein
• Mao Zedong, Chinese leader and guerrilla theorist.
• Carlos Marighella, Brazilian "urban guerrilla", author, Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla.
• Tyrone G. Martin, USS Constitution expert.
• Maurice, Byzantine Emperor and traditional author of the military treatise Strategikon.
• John Frederick Maurice, soldier, military writer.
• Maurice of Nassau.
• Billy Mitchell.
• Helmuth von Moltke the Elder.
• François-Henri de Montmorency.
• Robin Moore, author, The Hunt for Bin Laden: Task Force Dagger.
• Miyamoto Musashi, author, The Book of Five Rings.
• Napoleon I of France.
• Abdul Haris Nasution.
• Michel Ney.
• Ardant du Picq
• Lucien Poirier.
• Polyaenus.
• Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (De Re Militari).
• Erwin Rommel, German field marshal during WWII, author Infantry Attacks (Infanterie greift an), armored battle theory.
• Arthur Rosenberg, political historian, author, A history of Bolshevism from Marx to the first five years' plan.
• Cornelius Ryan, author, The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far.
• Sigismund von Schlichting, 19th century infantry theorist.
• Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban.
• Thomas Schelling
• Sigismund von Schlichting
• Richard Simpkin, military theorist.
• Vasily Sokolovsky
• Hew Strachan, military historian.
• Sun Bin, claimed descent from Sun Tzu, and was considered Sun Tzu II. Author of Sun Bin Bing Fa.
• Sun Tzu, general, author of The Art of War.
• Alexander Suvorov, General, author of The Science of Victory.
• Aeneas Tacticus.
• A.J.P. Taylor.
• Thucydides.
• Eduard Totleben.
• Hugh Trenchard.
• Yamamoto Tsunetomo, author of Hagakure.
• Mikhail Tukhachevsky.
• Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban
• Vegetius.
• Julius von Verdy du Vernois, 19th century general and theorist.
• Vo Nguyen Giap, North Vietnamese general who was a key figure in their success in the Vietnam War, decisive in victory at Dien Ben Phu.
• Khalid ibn Walid.
• H. G. Wells.
• Bing West, military historian.
• Garnet Wolseley.
• Wu Qi, author, Wuzi.
• Xenophon.
• Wang Xiangsui, author, Unrestricted Warfare.
• Jiao Yu.

See also

• Lists of authors
• Military history
• List of authors in war

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