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List of military writers

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

Contents

A

  • Stephen Ambrose
  • Alberto Bayo – Latin American revolutionary, A Manual of Guerrilla Warfare

    • B

  • Andrew Bacevich
  • Thomas P.M. Barnett
  • Don Bendell – Crossbow, The B-52 Overture, Valley of Tears, Snake-Eater, Criminal Investigation Detachment
  • David Bercuson
  • Friedrich von Bernhardi
  • Eric Arthur Blair (aka George Orwell), "Homage to Catalonia"
  • John Boyd – Inventor of the OODA Loop or decision cycle, Energy-Maneuverability, Aerial Attack Study, "Discourse on Winning & Losing", Destruction & Creation
  • Gary Brecher – War Nerd
  • Ahron Bregman – books on the Arab–Israeli conflict
  • Bernard Brodie
  • Don Brown – Treason, Hostage, Defiance, Black Sea Affair, Malacca Conspiracy,
  • Bao Ninh – The Sorrow of War (about the Vietnam War)

    • C

  • Lazare Carnot
  • Caleb Carr – military historian, Lessons of Terror, The Devil Soldier
  • Nigel Cawthorne – POW histories: The Bamboo Cage, The Iron Cage
  • Chanakya – Arthashastra
  • Winston Churchill – The River War, The Gathering Storm
  • Robert M. Citino – German Way of War, Quest for Decisive Victory, Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm, Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942, Werhmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943, several others
  • Tom Clancy – Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, Net Force, others
  • Carl von Clausewitz – military theorist, On War
  • Menno van Coehoorn
  • John Colomb
  • Julian Corbett – Edwardian British Naval theorist, Some Principles of Maritime Strategy
  • Anthony Cordesman
  • James Corum
  • Martin van Creveld – expanded theory of war proponent
  • Arthur Currie

    • D

  • Giulio Douhet
  • Mikhail Dragomirov – Russian military theoretician
  • Gwynne Dyer
  • Charles de Gaulle – Vers l’Armée de Métier (1934), La France et son Armée (1938), etc. (partial bibliography of de Gaulle's military writings; influence of de Gaulle's military writings in Nazi Germany)

    • E

  • Ertuğrul Bülbül – Turkish military theoretician
  • Jeff Edwards – Torpedo
  • Stuart E. Eizenstat
  • Alonso de Ercilla – La Araucana

    • F

  • Bernard Fall
  • Frederick II of Prussia
  • Ferdinand Foch
  • Sextus Julius Frontinus – Stratagemata
  • J.F.C. Fuller – theoretician of tank warfare
  • Paul Fussell

    • G

  • Pierre Marie Gallois
  • David Glantz – preeminent authority on the Red Army during World War II
  • 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, Achtung Panzer!
  • Ernesto Che Guevara – Argentinian revolutionary, diary outlined the guerrilla war being fought in Bolivia. Guerrilla Warfare
  • Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert
  • Charles de Gaulle – Vers l’Armée de Métier (1934), La France et son Armée (1938), etc. (partial bibliography of de Gaulle's military writings; influence of de Gaulle's military writings in Nazi Germany)

    • H

  • David Hackworth
  • Bruce Barrymore Halpenny – Airfields, World War Two, Bomber and Fighter Command
  • Thomas X. Hammes
  • Gustav Hasford
  • Herodotus
  • Jonathan House

    • J

  • 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 – The Wars of the Jews
  • Ernst Jünger – Storm of Steel
  • Jiang Ziya – Six Secret Teachings

    • K

  • Herman Kahn
  • John Keegan – military historian
  • Paul Kennedy
  • David Kilcullen
  • Howard Kippenberger – New Zealand general and military historian
  • Henry Kissinger
  • Shen Kuo – Dream Pool Essays

    • L

  • John Knox Laughton
  • T. E. Lawrence – colloquially known as "Lawrence of Arabia"
  • Leo VI the Wise – Byzantine emperor (Taktika)
  • "Yank" Levy – author of pamphlet Guerrilla Warfare
  • John David Lewis
  • B. H. Liddell-Hart – proponent of the "indirect approach"
  • William S. Lind
  • Liu Bowen – Huolongjing
  • Stephen B. Luce
  • Edward Luttwack – theorist, identified the 'Dynamic Paradox' of strategy

    • M

  • Douglas Macgregor
  • Niccolò Machiavelli – political theorist, 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 – prominent German general in World War II
  • Mao Zedong – Chinese leader and guerrilla theorist
  • Carlos Marighella – Brazilian "urban guerrilla", 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
  • Gordon McCormick – theorist on the "Magic Diamond" model of counter-insurgency
  • Steven Metz
  • Billy Mitchell
  • Helmuth von Moltke the Elder – theorist and strategist; "father" of mission-type tactics and the German field manual for unit commanders
  • François-Henri de Montmorency
  • Robin Moore – The Hunt for Bin Laden: Task Force Dagger
  • Miyamoto Musashi – The Book of Five Rings

    • N

  • Napoleon I of France
  • Abdul Haris Nasution
  • Michel Ney
  • Sönke Neitzel—author of Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying

    • O

  • Weston Ochse

    • P

  • Ralph Peters
  • Ardant du Picq – French military theorist, Battle Studies
  • Lucien Poirier
  • Polyaenus
  • H. John Poole
  • Douglas Porch

    • R

  • Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus – De Re Militari
  • Erwin Rommel – German field marshal during World War II, Infantry Attacks (Infanterie greift an), armored battle theory
  • Cornelius Ryan – The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far, The Last Battle

    • S

  • Sigismund von Schlichting – 19th century infantry theorist
  • Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban
  • Thomas Schelling
  • Sima Rangju – The Methods of the Sima
  • Richard Simpkin – military theorist
  • Thomas Smith
  • Vasily Sokolovsky
  • David Stahel – military historian with a focus on Operation Barbarossa and the Battle of Moscow
  • Hew Strachan – military historian
  • Sun Bin – claimed descent from Sun Tzu, and was considered Sun Tzu II, Sun Bin Bing Fa
  • Sun Tzu – general, The Art of War
  • Alexander Suvorov – general, The Science of Victory

    • T

  • Aeneas Tacticus
  • A.J.P. Taylor
  • Wallace Terry
  • Thucydides – History of the Peloponnesian War
  • Eduard Totleben
  • Hugh Trenchard
  • Yamamoto Tsunetomo – Hagakure
  • Barbara Tuchman – historian
  • Mikhail Tukhachevsky

    • V

  • 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

    • W

  • Khalid ibn Walid
  • Wang Li – the Master of Ghost Valley
  • Wei Liao – Wei Liaozi
  • H. G. Wells
  • Bing West – military historian
  • Garnet Wolseley
  • Wu Qi – Wuzi

    • X

  • Xenophon – Anabasis and Hellenica
  • Wang Xiangsui – Unrestricted Warfare
  • Jiao Yu

    • Z

  • Mao Zedong On Guerrilla Warfare
  • Zhuge Liang – strategist from The Three Kingdoms era, Thirty-Six Stratagems

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