List of military writers

Outline of War
Eras Prehistoric Ancient Medieval Gunpowder Industrial Modern
Generations of warfare First Second Third Fourth
Battlespace Air Information Land Sea Space
Weapons Armor Artillery Biological Cavalry Conventional Chemical Cyber Electronic Infantry Nuclear Psychological Unconventional
Tactics Aerial Battle Cavalry Charge Cover Counter-insurgency Foxhole Guerrilla warfare Morale Siege Tactical objective
Operational Blitzkrieg Deep battle Maneuver warfare Operational manoeuvre group
Strategy Attrition Deception Defensive Offensive Goal Naval
Grand strategy Containment Economic warfare Military science Philosophy of war Strategic studies Total war
Organization Command and control Doctrine Education and training Engineers Intelligence Ranks Staff Technology and equipment
Logistics Materiel Supply chain management
Other Asymmetric warfare Cold war Mercenary Military operation Operations research Principles of War Proxy war Trench warfare War crimes
Lists Battles Commanders Operations Sieges Wars War crimes Weapons 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

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.

H

• David Hackworth
• Bruce Barrymore Halpenny – Airfields, World War Two, Bomber and Fighter Command
• Thomas X. Hammes
• Herodotus
• Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert

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

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

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

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

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