List of military writers
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The following is a list of military writers, alphabetical by last name:
A[]
- Pierre Emmanuel Albert, Baron Ducasse
- Stephen Ambrose
- Raymond Aron
B[]
- Andrew Bacevich
- Ali Bader Iraq war
- Bao Ninh – The Sorrow of War (about the Vietnam War)
- Thomas P.M. Barnett
- Alberto Bayo – Latin American revolutionary, A Manual of Guerrilla Warfare
- Marc Becker
- Antony Beevor – several books on the Second World War; also on the Spanish Civil WAr
- 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
- Mark Bowden
- 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, Last Fighter Pilot, Malacca Conspiracy
C[]
- Tobias Capwell (born c. 1973) – American curator, historian of arms and armour, and jouster
- 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, Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943
- Tom Clancy – Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, Net Force
- 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
- Pierre Emmanuel Albert, Baron Ducasse
- Gwynne Dyer
E[]
- Jacey Eckhart
- Jeff Edwards – Torpedo
- Stuart E. Eizenstat
- Alonso de Ercilla – La Araucana
F[]
- Bernard Fall
- Ferdinand Foch
- Frederick II of Prussia
- Sextus Julius Frontinus – Stratagemata
- J.F.C. Fuller – theoretician of tank warfare
- Paul Fussell
G[]
- Pierre Marie Gallois
- Azar Gat
- Charles de Gaulle – Vers l'Armée de Métier (1934), La France et son Armée (1938) (partial bibliography of de Gaulle's military writings; influence of de Gaulle's military writings in Nazi Germany)
- David Glantz – preeminent authority on the Red Army during World War II
- Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz – 19th-century general and theorist
- Jack Granatstein
- Lester W. Grau
- 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 de Guibert
H[]
- David Hackworth
- Bruce Barrymore Halpenny – Airfields, World War Two, Bomber and Fighter Command
- Thomas X. Hammes
- Victor Davis Hanson[1]
- Gustav Hasford
- Joel Hayward
- Herodotus
- Jonathan House
- Sir Michael Howard
I[]
- Kanji Ishiwara – (On World Final War)
J[]
- Jiang Ziya – Six Secret Teachings
- 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
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, On Guerrilla Warfare
- 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
- 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
- Sönke Neitzel – author of Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying
- Michel Ney
O[]
- Weston Ochse
P[]
- Sarah C. Paine
- Mason Patrick – Major General, Chief of US Army Air Service and US Army Air Corps, The US in the air
- Ralph Peters
- Ardant du Picq – French military theorist, Battle Studies
- Lucien Poirier
- Polyaenus
- H. John Poole
- Douglas Porch
R[]
- Sima Rangju – The Methods of the Sima
- 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[]
- Philip Sabin
- Thomas Schelling
- Sigismund von Schlichting – 19th-century infantry theorist
- Ayesha Siddiqa
- Lynette Silver
- 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
U[]
- Matthew Uttley
V[]
- Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban
- Vegetius
- Julius von Verdy du Vernois – 19th-century general and theorist
- Võ Nguyên Giáp – North Vietnamese general who was a key figure in their success in the Vietnam War, decisive in victory at the Battle of Dien Ben Phu
W[]
- Wang Li – the Master of Ghost Valley
- H. G. Wells
- Bing West – military historian
- Garnet Wolseley
- Wu Qi – Wuzi
- Kenneth Wash -- The Final Defense, Flags of Vengeance
X[]
- Xenophon – Anabasis and Hellenica
- Wang Xiangsui – Unrestricted Warfare
Y[]
Z[]
- Zhuge Liang – strategist from The Three Kingdoms era, The General's Garden
See also[]
- Lists of authors
- Military history
- List of authors in war – writers who served in and wrote about war, including memoirs and fiction
- List of Chinese military texts
References[]
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