Editing List of military writers

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The following is a '''list of military writers''', alphabetical by last name:
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==A==
* [[Pierre Emmanuel Albert, Baron Ducasse]]
* [[Stephen Ambrose]]
* [[Raymond Aron]]

==B==
* [[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 (military strategist)|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 (military strategist)|Bernard Brodie]]
* [[Don Brown (author)|Don Brown]] – ''Treason'', ''Hostage'', ''Defiance'', ''Last Fighter Pilot'', ''Malacca Conspiracy''

==C==
* [[Tobias Capwell]] (born {{circa| 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 (novel)|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==
* [[Jacey Eckhart]]
* [[Jeff Edwards (author)|Jeff Edwards]] – ''Torpedo''
* [[Stuart E. Eizenstat]]
* [[Alonso de Ercilla]] – ''[[La Araucana]]''

==F==
* [[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]]
* [[Frontinus|Sextus Julius Frontinus]] – ''Stratagemata''
* [[J.F.C. Fuller]] – theoretician of [[tank|tank warfare]]
* [[Paul Fussell]]

==G==
* [[Pierre Marie Gallois]]
* [[Azar Gat]]
* [[Charles de Gaulle]] – ''Vers l'Armée de Métier'' (1934), ''La France et son Armée'' (1938) (partial [[Charles de Gaulle#Works|bibliography]] of de Gaulle's military writings; [[Charles de Gaulle#Between the wars|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]]
* [[George Grivas]]
* [[Heinz Guderian]] – German general, developed principles of [[Blitzkrieg]], ''[[Achtung – Panzer!]]''
* [[Ernesto Che Guevara]] – Argentinian revolutionary, diary outlined the [[guerrilla warfare|guerrilla war]] being fought in [[Bolivia]]. ''[[Guerrilla Warfare (book)|Guerrilla Warfare]]''
* [[Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert|Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte de Guibert]]

==H==
* [[David Hackworth]]
* [[Bruce Barrymore Halpenny]] – ''Airfields'', ''World War Two'', ''Bomber and Fighter Command''
* [[Thomas X. Hammes]]
* [[Victor Davis Hanson]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hoover.org/profiles/victor-davis-hanson|title=Victor Davis Hanson}}</ref>
* [[Gustav Hasford]]
* [[Joel Hayward]]
* [[Herodotus]]
* [[Jonathan House]]
* [[Sir Michael Howard]]

== I ==

* [[Kanji Ishiwara]] – ''[[Sekai Saishū Senron]] (On World Final War)''

==J==
* [[Jiang Ziya]] – ''[[Six Secret Teachings]]''
* [[Michael Johns (policy analyst)|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]] – 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

==M==
* [[Douglas Macgregor]]
* [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] – political theorist, ''[[The Prince]]'' and ''Dell'arte della guerra'' (''[[The Art of War (Machiavelli)|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]] – [[China|Chinese]] leader and guerrilla theorist, ''[[On Protracted War|On Guerrilla Warfare]]''
* [[Carlos Marighella]] – Brazilian "urban guerrilla", ''[[Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla]]''
* [[Tyrone G. Martin]] – [[USS Constitution|USS ''Constitution'']] expert
* [[Maurice (emperor)|Maurice]] – Byzantine Emperor and traditional author of the military treatise ''[[Strategikon of Maurice|Strategikon]]''
* [[Frederick Maurice (soldier, born 1841)|Frederick Maurice]] – soldier, military writer
* [[Maurice of Nassau]]
* [[McCormick Magic Diamond|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 [[Truppenführung|German field manual for unit commanders]]
* [[François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg|François-Henri de Montmorency]]
* [[Robin Moore]] – ''The Hunt for [[Osama bin Laden|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''
* [[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]] – [[List of German Field Marshals|German field marshal]] during World War II, ''[[Infantry Attacks]]'' (''Infanterie greift an''), armored battle theory
* [[Cornelius Ryan]] – ''[[The Longest Day (book)|The Longest Day]]'', ''[[A Bridge Too Far (book)|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 (English soldier)|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'' ({{langx|ru|[[:ru:Наука побеждать|Наука побеждать]]|italic=yes}})

==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==
* [[Vauban|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''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Võ Nguyên Giáp |url=https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJjt8GxgrK7vYfdPJFv4MP.html |access-date=2023-07-30 |website=id.oclc.org}}</ref>

==W==
* [[Guiguzi|Wang Li]] – the Master of Ghost Valley
* [[H. G. Wells]]
* [[Bing West]] – military historian
* [[Gordon Williamson (writer)]] military reference books
* [[Garnet Wolseley]]
* [[Wu Qi]] – ''[[Wuzi]]''

==X==
* [[Xenophon]] – ''[[Anabasis (Xenophon)|Anabasis]]'' and ''[[Hellenica]]''
* [[Wang Xiangsui]] – ''[[Unrestricted Warfare (book)|Unrestricted Warfare]]''

==Y==
* [[Jiao Yu]]

==Z==
* [[Zhuge Liang]] – strategist from The [[Three Kingdoms|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]]

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