List of military writers

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

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 (about the Vietnam 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 (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, Last Fighter Pilot, Malacca Conspiracy
• Marc Becker
• Mark Bowden

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

• 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 (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)
• 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
• 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, 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 (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
• 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 (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
• 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

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