This is a list of military writers, alphabetical by last name.

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• Bayo, Alberto, Latin American Revolutionary, author of A Manual of Guerilla Warfare.
• Allinson, Sidney Canadian military historian and historical novelist, author of The Bantams: The Untold Story Of World War One and Kruger's Gold: A novel of the Anglo-Boer War.
• Bendell, Don, author Crossbow, The B-52 Overture, Valley of Tears, Snake-Eater, as well as modern military thriller Criminal Investigation Detachment.
• Brecher, Gary, author of War Nerd.
• Bregman, Ahron, author of several books on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
• Boyd, John, inventor of the OODA Loop or decision cycle.
• Caesar, Julius, author of Gallic Wars, Alexandrian Wars, etc.
• Chanakya, author of Arthashastra.
• Clancy, Tom, author of Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, Net Force, others.
• Charles E. Callwell, author of Small Wars: A Tactical Textbook for Imperial Soldiers, first published 1906.
• Clausewitz, Carl von, general and author of On War.
• Corbett, Julian, Edwardian British Naval theorist author of Some Principles of Maritime Strategy, rough contemperary of Mahan.
• Martin van Creveld, proponent of an expanded theory of war.
• Dragomirov, Mikhail, the most celebrated Russian military theoretician.
• Du Picq, Ardant, french military theorist and author of Battle Studies.
• Ercilla, Alonso de y Zúñiga, author of La Araucana.
• Frontinus, Sextus Julius , author of the Stratagemata.
• Fuller, J.F.C., theoretician of tank warfare.
• Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnamese general responsible for success of the Vietnamese in the Vietnam war; was decisive in the victory at Dien Ben Phu.
• Goltz, Colmar Freiherr von der, 19th century general and theorist.
• Guderian, Heinz, German General, Developed principles of Blitzkrieg, author of Achtung Panzer!
• Guevara, Ernesto Che, Argentinian revolutionary, diary outlined the guerrilla war being fought in Bolivia.
• Hart, B.H. Liddell, proponent of the "indirect approach", influential on all 20th century military thinking.
• Herodotus, ancient Greek historian whose book, The Histories, focuses primarily on the Persian invasion of Greece in the 5th century BC.
• Johns, Michael, foreign policy and national security analyst and writer.
• Jomini, Antoine Henri, 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 wrote The Wars of the Jews
• Keegan, John, Military historian.
• Leonhard, Robert, Military theorist.
• Luttwack, Edward, Theorist, identified the 'Dynamic Paradox' of strategy.
• Mao Zedong, Chinese leader and guerrilla theorist.
• Machiavelli, Niccolo, political theorist, author of The Prince and Dell'arte della guerra (The Art of War).
• Mahan, Alfred Thayer, naval strategist.
• Mahan, Dennis Hart, Military theorist and Engineering professor at West Point, father of Alfred Thayer Mahan, wrote "Advanced Guard, Outpost and Detatchment Service of Troops, with essential Principles of Strategy and Grand Tactics" commonly known as "Outpost".
• Marighella, Carlos, Brazilian "urban guerrilla", wrote Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla.
• Martin, Tyrone G., USS Constitution expert.
• Moore, Robin, wrote The Hunt for Bin Laden: Task Force Dagger.
• Rommel, Erwin, German Field Marshal during WWII, noted for his book Infantry Attacks (Infanterie greift an) and armored battle theory.
• Rosenberg, Arthur, political historian, wrote "A history of bolshevism from Marx to the first Five years' plan".
• Ryan, Cornelius, wrote The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far.
• Schalk, Emil, Summary of the Art of War.
• Schlichting, Sigismund von, 19th century infantry theorist.
• Simpkin, Richard, Military theorist.
• Strachan, Hew, Military historian.
• Alexander Suvorov, generalissimo and author of The Science of Victory.
• Sun Tzu, general and author of The Art of War.
• Tiberius, Flavius Mauricius, Byzantine Emperor and traditional author of the military treatise Strategikon.
• Thucydides, author of History of the Peloponnesian War.
• Verdy du Vernois, Julius von, 19th century general and theorist.
• West, Bing, Military historian.
• Xenophon, his Anabasis recording the Greeks' march out of Asia Minor.
• Miyamoto Musashi, feudal Japan (crica 15th century) author of The Book of Five Rings.
• Flavius Arrianus Xenophon, known as Arrian in English, author of Anabasis Alexandri The Campaigns of Alexander the Great.
• Tsunetomo, Yamamoto, author of Hagakure.

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The Arthashastra (more precisely Arthaśāstra) is a treatise on statecraft and economic policy which identifies its author by the names Kauá¹­ilya[1] and Viṣṇugupta,[2] who are traditionally identified with the Mauryan minister Cāṇakya. ... Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. ... A young Clausewitz Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz (June 1, 1780 – November 16, 1831) was a Prussian general and influential military theorist. ... On War (Ger. ... Sir Julian Stafford Corbett (1854-1922) was a prominent British naval historian and geostrategist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, whose works helped shape the Royal Navys reforms of that era. ... Martin van Creveld (1946- ) is an Israeli military historian and theorist. ... Mikhail Ivanovich Dragomirov (Михаил Иванович Драгомиров in Russian) (November 8 (NS 20), 1830-October 15 (NS 28), 1905) was a Russian general and military writer. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Alonso de Ercilla (1533 - 1594) was a Basque nobleman from Spain, and author of epic poem La Araucana. ... La Araucana is an epic poem in Spanish about the Spanish conquest of Chile, by Alonso de Ercilla; it is also known in English as The Araucaniad. ... Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. ... J.F.C. Fuller (September 1, 1878 – February 10, 1966), full name John Frederick Charles Fuller, was a British Major General, military historian and strategist, notable as an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including categorising principles of warfare. ... The German Leopard 2A6 tank is a modern main battle tank. ... General Vo Nguyen Giap (Vietnamese: Võ Nguyên Giáp - Võ is his family name) (born 1912) is a Vietnamese four-star general, who was the military leader of the Viet Minh guerrilla group under Hồ Chí Minhs political leadership, and of the Peoples Army of Vietnam (PAVN) in... Warning: this article is based primarily on information from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica and does not reflect modern scholarship. ... Heinz Wilhelm Guderian (ca. ... One of the defining characteristics of what is commonly known as Blitzkrieg is close co-operation between infantry and tanks. ... Che Guevara Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna (May 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary and Cuban guerrilla leader. ... Look up guerrilla in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Basil Henry Liddell Hart (October 31, 1895 _ January 29, 1970) was a military historian and is considered among the great military strategists of the 20th century. ... 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(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) The 5th century BC started on January 1, 500 BC and ended on December 31, 401 BC. // The Parthenon of Athens seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west. ... Michael Johns (born September 8, 1964 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American health care executive, former federal government of the United States official and conservative policy analyst and writer. ... Antoine-Henri, baron Jomini (March 6, 1779 _ March 24, 1869), general in the French and afterwards in the Russian service, and one of the most celebrated writers on the art of war, was born at Payerne in the canton of Switzerland, where his father was syndic. ... Combatants Allies: • Great Britain (until 1801)/United Kingdom(from 1801) • Prussia • Austria • Sweden • Russia • Portugal • Spain • and others • France • Denmark-Norway • Poland Casualties Full list The Napoleonic Wars comprised a series of global conflicts fought during Napoleon Bonapartes rule over France (1799 - 1815). ... A representation of Flavius Josephus, a woodcutting in John C. Winstons translation of his works Josephus ( 37 – 100 AD/CE), who became known, in his capacity as a Roman citizen, as Flavius Josephus[1], was a 1st century Jewish historian and apologist of priestly and royal ancestry who survived... The Wars of the Jews (or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem) is a book written by the historian Josephus as a description of Jewish history up to the events of the Destruction of Jerusalem. ... Sir John Keegan (born 1934) is an English military historian. ...   (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976) (also Mao Tse-Tung in Wade-Giles transliteration) was a Chinese Marxist military and political leader, who led the Chinese Communist Party to victory against the Kuomintang (KMT) in the Chinese Civil War, leading to the establishment of the People’s Republic of China... Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was a political philosopher, musician, poet, and romantic comedic playwright. ... Il Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine writer Niccolò Machiavelli, originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities). ... Alfred Thayer Mahan Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan (September 27, 1840 - December 1, 1914) was a United States Navy officer, geostrategist, and educator. ... Dennis Hart Mahan (April 2, 1802 - September 16, 1871) was a noted American military theorist and professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point. ... Carlos Marighella (5 December 1911 - 4 November 1969) was a Brazilian guerrilla revolutionary and Marxist writer. ... Tyrone G. Martin is a US Navy commander and naval historian, notable as an authority on the USS Constitution (Old Ironsides), of which he was the 49th captain, between 1974 and 1978. ... USS Constitution, known as Old Ironsides, is a wooden-hulled, three-masted frigate of the United States Navy. ... Robin Moore (b. ... Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel ( ) (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) was one of the most distinguished German field marshals of World War II. He was the commander of the Deutsches Afrika Korps and also became known by the nickname The Desert Fox (Wüstenfuchs,  ) for the skillful military campaigns he... Infantry Attacks is a classic book on military tactics written by German General Erwin Rommel about his experiences in World War I. In it were his stosstruppen(shock troops) tactics. ... Cornelius Ryan (5 June 1920 – 23 November 1974) was an Irish-American journalist and author mainly known for his writings on popular military history, especially World War II. His two best-known books are The Longest Day (1959), which tells the story of the D-Day (day one of the... Sigismund Wilhelm Lorenz von Schlichting ( 1829- 1909) was a Prussian soldier and military theorist, perhaps best known for his participation in the debates over infantry tactics in the 1880s and 1890s. ... Richard Evelyn Simpkin (1921 - 1986) was a British Army officer, attaining the rank of brigadier. ... Professor Hew Strachan is a military historian, well known for his work on the administration of the British Army and the history of the First World War. ... Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov (Russian: ) (sometimes transliterated as Aleksandr, Aleksander and Suvarov), Count Suvorov of Rymnik, Prince of Italy () (November 24, 1729 – May 18, 1800), was the fourth and last Russian Generalissimo (not counting Stalin). ... Sun Tzu (孫子 also commonly written in pinyin: Sūn Zǐ) was the author of The Art of War, an influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy (for the most part not dealing directly with tactics). ... A modern edition of The Art of War translated into English by Samuel B. Griffith. ... A solidus of Maurices reign Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus or Maurice I (539 - November, 602) was the emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 582 to 602. ... Strategikon (6th century) is a manual of war by Byzantine emperor Maurice I; it is moreover a practical manual, a rather modest elementary handbook, in the words of its introduction, for those devoting themselves to generalship. ... Bust of Thucydides residing in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. ... Page from tenth-century minuscule manuscript of Thucydides History Wikisource has original works written by or about: Thucydides (in Greek) The History of the Peloponnesian War is an account of the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by... Julius von Verdy du Vernois (1832-1910) was a German general and staff officer, chiefly noted for his military writings. ... F. J. ‘Bing’ West served in Marine infantry in Vietnam and as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Reagan administration. ... Xenophon, Greek historian Xenophon (In Greek , c. ... Anabasis is the most famous work of the Greek writer Xenophon. ... Anatolia (Greek: ανατολη anatole, rising of the sun or East; compare Orient and Levant, by popular etymology Turkish Anadolu to ana mother and dolu filled), also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor, is a region of Southwest Asia which corresponds today to... Miyamoto Musashi killing a nue, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861). ... Musashi Miyamoto in his prime, wielding two bokken. ... Alexander the Great Lucius Flavius Arrianus Xenophon (c. ... Anabasis Alexandri The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian is the most important source on Alexander the Great. ... Alexander the Great (Greek: ,[1] Megas Alexandros; July 356 BC–June 11, 323 BC), also known as Alexander III, king of Macedon (336–323 BC), was one of, if not the most successful military commanders in history. ... Tsunetomo Yamamoto (12 June 1659 - 1719) was a samurai of the Saga domain in Hizen Province under his lord Mitsushige Nabeshima. ... Hagakure, or Hagakure Kikigaki (葉隠-In the Shadow of Leaves) is a practical and spiritual guide for a warrior, drawn from a collection of commentaries by the former samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, retainer to Nabeshima Mitsushige, the third ruler of what is now the Saga prefecture in Japan. ...

See also

• Lists of authors
• Military history
• List of authors in war
• List of military theorists