List of military writers

A

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

  B

• Andrew Bacevich
• Ali Bader Iraq war
• Thomas P.M. Barnett
• Bao Ninh - The Sorrow of War
• Alberto Bayo - Latin American revolutionary, A Manual of Guerrilla Warfare
• 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 - Homage to Catalonia
• Eric Blehm - Fearless, Legend
• 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
• Marcus Brotherton - Blaze of Light, Shifty's War, Who We Are Alive And Remain
• Don Brown - Treason, Hostage, Defiance, Last Fighter Pilot, Malacca Conspiracy
• Marc Becker
• Mark Bowden

  C

• Tobias Capwell, 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
• Scott D. Covey - Grey Redemption, Redemption's Bullet,
• 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

• 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
• Charles de Gaulle – Vers l'Armée de Métier, La France et son Armée
• Azar Gat
• 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

  H

• David Hackworth
• Bruce Barrymore Halpenny - Airfields, World War Two, Bomber and Fighter Command
• Thomas X. Hammes
• Gustav Hasford
• Joel Hayward
• Herodotus
• Jonathan House
• Sir Michael Howard

  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 and Traité des grandes opérations militaires
• 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
• "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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Piero Pieri
• 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, 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
• 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

  Y

• Jiao Yu

  Z

• Zhuge Liang - strategist from The Three Kingdoms era, The General's Garden