List of military writers

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

A

 * Sidney Allinson – Canadian military historian, The Bantams: The Untold Story Of World War One, Kruger's Gold: A novel of the Anglo-Boer War
 * Stephen Ambrose
 * Alberto Bayo – Latin American revolutionary, A Manual of Guerrilla Warfare

B

 * Thomas P.M. Barnett
 * Don Bendell – Crossbow, The B-52 Overture, Valley of Tears, Snake-Eater, Criminal Investigation Detachment
 * David Bercuson
 * Friedrich von Bernhardi
 * 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 (author)–Treason, Hostage, Defiance, Black Sea Affair, Malacca Conspiracy,
 * B.K.Bryans – Those '67 Blues,The Dog Robbers
 * Bao Ninh – The Sorrow of War (about the Vietnam War)

C

 * Lazare Carnot
 * Caleb Carr – military historian, Lessons of Terror, The Devil Soldier
 * Nigel Cawthorne – POW histories: The Bamboo Cage, The Iron Cage
 * John R. Cencich – Special Agent, USAF (Ret.) and U.N. War Crimes Investigator: The Devil's Garden: A War Crimes Investigator's Story
 * Chanakya – Arthashastra
 * Robert M. Citino – German Way of War, Quest for Decisive Victory, Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm, Death of the Wehrmacht, several others
 * Tom Clancy – Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, Net Force, others
 * 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
 * Martin van Creveld – expanded theory of war proponent
 * Arthur Currie

D

 * Giulio Douhet
 * Mikhail Dragomirov – Russian military theoretician
 * Gwynne Dyer
 * Charles de Gaulle Vers l’Armée de Métier (1934), La France et son Armée (1938), etc. (partial bibliography of de Gaulle's military writings; influence of de Gaulle's military writings in Nazi Germany)

E

 * Ertuğrul Bülbül – Turkish military theoretician
 * Jeff Edwards – Torpedo
 * Stuart E. Eizenstat
 * Alonso de Ercilla – La Araucana

F

 * Bernard Fall
 * Frederick II of Prussia
 * Ferdinand Foch
 * Sextus Julius Frontinus – Stratagemata
 * J.F.C. Fuller – theoretician of tank warfare
 * Paul Fussell

G

 * Pierre Marie Gallois
 * 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.
 * Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert
 * Charles de Gaulle Vers l’Armée de Métier (1934), La France et son Armée (1938), etc. (partial bibliography of de Gaulle's military writings; influence of de Gaulle's military writings in Nazi Germany)

H

 * David Hackworth
 * Bruce Barrymore Halpenny – Airfields, World War Two, Bomber and Fighter Command
 * Thomas X. Hammes
 * Herodotus
 * Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert
 * Otis Ted Holly – Three Years Aboard a Navy Destroyer

J

 * 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

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)
 * John David Lewis
 * B. H. Liddell-Hart – proponent of the "indirect approach", influential in all 20th-century military thinking
 * William S. Lind
 * Liu Ji – 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 – a prominent German general in World War II
 * Mao Zedong – Chinese leader and guerrilla theorist
 * 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
 * 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
 * Michel Ney

P

 * Ralph Peters
 * Ardant du Picq – French military theorist, Battle Studies
 * Lucien Poirier
 * Polyaenus
 * H. John Poole
 * Peter Polack - Last Hot Battle of the Cold War

R

 * Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus – De Re Militari
 * Erwin Rommel – German field marshal during WWII, Infantry Attacks (Infanterie greift an), armored battle theory
 * Cornelius Ryan – The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far, The Last Battle

S

 * Sigismund von Schlichting – 19th century infantry theorist
 * Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban
 * Thomas Schelling
 * Richard Simpkin – military theorist
 * Vasily Sokolovsky
 * 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
 * Thucydides – History of the Peloponnesian War
 * Eduard Totleben
 * Hugh Trenchard
 * Yamamoto Tsunetomo – Hagakure
 * Barbara Tuchman – historian
 * Mikhail Tukhachevsky

V

 * Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban
 * Vegetius
 * Julius von Verdy du Vernois – 19th century general and theorist
 * Vo Nguyen Giap – North Vietnamese general who was a key figure in their success in the Vietnam War, decisive in victory at Dien Ben Phu
 * Van-Creveld Martin world renowned Israeli military historian.

W

 * Khalid ibn Walid
 * Wang Li – the Master of Ghost Valley
 * H. G. Wells
 * Bing West – military historian
 * Garnet Wolseley
 * Wu Qi – Wuzi

X

 * Xenophon – Anabasis and Hellenica
 * Wang Xiangsui – Unrestricted Warfare
 * Jiao Yu

Z

 * Zhuge Liang – strategist from The Three Kingdoms era, Thirty-Six Stratagems