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The following is alist ofmilitary writers, alphabetical by last name:

• Pierre Emmanuel Albert, Baron Ducasse
• Stephen Ambrose
• Raymond Aron

• Andrew Bacevich
• Ali Bader Iraq war
• Bao Ninh –The Sorrow of War (about theVietnam 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 theOODA Loop ordecision cycle, Energy-Maneuverability,Aerial Attack Study, "Discourse on Winning & Losing",Destruction & Creation
• Gary Brecher –War Nerd
• Ahron Bregman – books on theArab–Israeli conflict
• Bernard Brodie
• Don Brown –Treason,Hostage,Defiance,Last Fighter Pilot,Malacca Conspiracy
• Philip Bujak - Historic Writing on subjects such asWorld War Two,Roman Province and more

• Tobias Capwell (bornc.  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

• Giulio Douhet
• Mikhail Dragomirov – Russian military theoretician
• Pierre Emmanuel Albert, Baron Ducasse
• Gwynne Dyer

• Jacey Eckhart
• Jeff Edwards –Torpedo
• Stuart E. Eizenstat
• Alonso de Ercilla –La Araucana

• Bernard Fall
• Edward S. Farrow –
• Ferdinand Foch –Des Principes de la Guerre (On the Principles of War) in 1903 andDe la Conduite de la Guerre (On the Conduct of War) in 1904
• Frederick II of Prussia
• Sextus Julius Frontinus –Stratagemata
• J.F.C. Fuller – theoretician oftank warfare
• Paul Fussell

• Pierre Marie Gallois
• Azar Gat
• Charles de Gaulle –Vers l'Armée de Métier (1934),La France et son Armée (1938) (partialbibliography of de Gaulle's military writings;influence of de Gaulle's military writings in Nazi Germany)
• David Glantz – preeminent authority on theRed Army during World War II
• Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz – 19th-century general and theorist
• Jack Granatstein
• Lester W. Grau
• George Grivas
• Heinz Guderian – German general, developed principles ofBlitzkrieg,Achtung – Panzer!
• Ernesto Che Guevara – Argentinian revolutionary, diary outlined theguerrilla war being fought inBolivia.Guerrilla Warfare
• Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte de Guibert

• 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

• Kanji Ishiwara –Sekai Saishū Senron (On World Final War)

• Jiang Ziya –Six Secret Teachings
• Michael Johns – foreign policy and national security analyst and writer
• Antoine Henri Jomini – General, wrote on theNapoleonic Wars includingPrecis de l'Art de la Guerre (Precis on the Art of War) andTraité des grandes opérations militaires (Treatise on Grand Military Operations)
• Josephus –The Wars of the Jews
• Ernst Jünger –Storm of Steel

• 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

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

• Douglas Macgregor
• Niccolò Machiavelli – political theorist,The Prince andDell'arte della guerra (The Art of War)
• Alfred Thayer Mahan – naval strategist
• Dennis Hart Mahan – military theorist and Engineering professor atWest Point, wroteAdvanced Guard, Outpost and Detachment Service of Troops, with essential Principles of Strategy and Grand Tactics, commonly known asOutpost
• Stepan Makarov – Russian vice admiral, innovator, naval strategist
• 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 –USSConstitution expert
• Maurice – Byzantine Emperor and traditional author of the military treatiseStrategikon
• 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" ofmission-type tactics and theGerman field manual for unit commanders
• François-Henri de Montmorency
• Robin Moore –The Hunt forBin Laden: Task Force Dagger
• Miyamoto Musashi –The Book of Five Rings

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

• Weston Ochse

• 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

• 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

• 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 onOperation Barbarossa and theBattle 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 (Russian:Наука побеждать)

• 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

• Matthew Uttley

• Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban
• Vegetius
• Julius von Verdy du Vernois – 19th-century general and theorist
• Võ Nguyên Giáp – Vietnamese general who played a key role in theFirst Indochina War and later theVietnam War. Known for his role at theBattle of Dien Ben Phu and theBattle of Khe Sanh. Some of his works includeBig Victory, Great Task;People's Army, People's War;Ðiện Biên Phủ; andWe Will Win.^[2]

• Wang Li – the Master of Ghost Valley
• H. G. Wells
• Bing West – military historian
• Gordon Williamson (writer) military reference books
• Garnet Wolseley
• Wu Qi –Wuzi

• Xenophon –Anabasis andHellenica
• Wang Xiangsui –Unrestricted Warfare

• Jiao Yu

• Zhuge Liang – strategist from TheThree Kingdoms era,The General's Garden

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• List of authors in war – writers who served in and wrote about war, including memoirs and fiction
• List of Chinese military texts

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