List of military writers

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

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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

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

Bernard Fall
Ferdinand Foch – Des Principes de la Guerre (On the Principles of War) in 1903 and De 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 of tank warfare
Paul Fussell

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

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

John Knox Laughton
T. E. Lawrence – author of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 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 Luttwak – theorist, identified the 'Dynamic Paradox' of strategy

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
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 – 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

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

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 (Russian: Наука побеждать)

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 the First Indochina War and later the Vietnam War. Known for his role at the Battle of Dien Ben Phu and the Battle of Khe Sanh. Some of his works include Big Victory, Great Task; People's Army, People's War; Ðiện Biên Phủ; and We Will Win.^[2]