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

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* Pierre Emmanuel Albert, Baron Ducasse * Stephen Ambrose *

Raymond Aron Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron (; 14 March 1905 – 17 October 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century. Aron is best known for his 19 ...

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Andrew Bacevich Andrew J. Bacevich Jr. (, ; born July 5, 1947) is an American historian specializing in international relations, security studies, American foreign policy, and American diplomatic and military history. He is a Professor Emeritus of International ...

Ali Bader Ali Bader (Arabic علي بدر) is an Iraqi novelist, poet, poetry translator, script writer, critic, regarded as the most significant writer to emerge in Arabic world, in the last decade. author of fifteen works of fiction, and several works o ...

Iraq war *

Bao Ninh Baozi (), Pao-tsih or bao, is a type of yeast-leavened filled bun in various Chinese cuisines. There are many variations in fillings (meat or vegetarian) and preparations, though the buns are most often steaming, steamed. They are a variation ...

– ''The Sorrow of War'' (about the Vietnam War) *

Thomas P.M. Barnett Thomas P.M. Barnett (born 1962) is an American military geostrategist and former chief analyst at Wikistrat. He developed a geopolitical theory that divided the world into "the Functioning Core" and the "Non-Integrating Gap" that made him part ...

* Alberto Bayo – Latin American revolutionary, ''A Manual of Guerrilla Warfare'' *

Marc Becker Marc Becker is a professor of Latin American Studies at Truman State University. He is a co-founder of NativeWeb, an internet resource that compiles information about Indigenous peoples around the world. He has published two books and several artic ...

* Antony Beevor – several books on the Second World War; also on the Spanish Civil WAr *

Don Bendell Don Bendell (born January 8, 1947) is an American author, rancher, tracker, producer, director, actor, and a former Green Beret. He has published 29 books and assisted in exposing former Atlantic City Mayor Bob Levy's claims of serving as a Gr ...

– ''Crossbow'', ''The B-52 Overture'', ''Valley of Tears'', ''Snake-Eater'', ''Criminal Investigation Detachment'' * David Bercuson * Friedrich von Bernhardi *

Eric Arthur Blair Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitar ...

(aka George Orwell) – '' Homage to Catalonia'' * Mark Bowden * John Boyd – inventor of the OODA Loop or

decision cycle A decision cycle is a sequence of steps used by an entity on a repeated basis to reach and implement decisions and to learn from the results. The "decision cycle" phrase has a history of use to broadly categorize various methods of making decision ...

, 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''

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* Tobias Capwell (born ) – American curator, historian of arms and armour, and jouster *

Lazare Carnot Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Count Carnot (; 13 May 1753 – 2 August 1823) was a French mathematician, physicist and politician. He was known as the "Organizer of Victory" in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. Education and early ...

Caleb Carr Caleb Carr (born August 2, 1955) is an American military historian and author. Carr is the second of three sons born to Lucien Carr and Francesca Von Hartz. He authored ''The Alienist'', ''The Angel of Darkness'', ''The Lessons of Terror'', ''K ...

– military historian, ''Lessons of Terror'', ''The Devil Soldier'' * Nigel Cawthorne – POW histories: ''The Bamboo Cage'', ''The Iron Cage'' * Chanakya – ''

Arthashastra The ''Arthashastra'' ( sa, अर्थशास्त्रम्, ) is an Ancient Indian Sanskrit treatise on statecraft, political science, economic policy and military strategy. Kautilya, also identified as Vishnugupta and Chanakya, is ...

'' *

Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 Winston Churchill in the Second World War, dur ...

– ''The River War'', ''The Gathering Storm'' *

Robert M. Citino Robert M. Citino (born June 19, 1958) is an American military historian and the Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian at the National WWII Museum. He is a leading authority on modern German military history, with an emphasis upon World War I ...

– ''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 Sir John Charles Ready Colomb, (1 May 1838 – 27 May 1909) was a British naval strategist and politician. Life Colomb was born in Onchan, Isle of Man, the son of General George Thomas Colomb (1787–1874), and was the younger brother of Briti ...

* 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

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* Giulio Douhet *

Mikhail Dragomirov Mikhail Ivanovich Dragomirov (russian: Михаил Иванович Драгомиров; – ) was a Russian general and military writer. His grandfather Ivan Antonovych Dragomirecki-Mockewicz after being granted a noble title in 1786, change ...

– Russian military theoretician * Pierre Emmanuel Albert, Baron Ducasse *

Gwynne Dyer Michael Gwynne Dyer (born 17 April 1943) is a British-Canadian military historian, author, professor, journalist, broadcaster, and retired naval officer. Dyer rose to prominence in the 1980s with the release of his television series ''War'' in 1 ...

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Jacey Eckhart Jacey Eckhart is a military life consultant based in Washington, DC. She is a nationally syndicated military columnist and author of several publications. Biography Eckhart wrote over 400 newspaper columns for ''The Virginian-Pilot'', in Norf ...

* Jeff Edwards – ''Torpedo'' *

Stuart E. Eizenstat Stuart Elliott Eizenstat (born January 15, 1943) is an American diplomat and attorney. He served as the United States Ambassador to the European Union from 1993 to 1996 and as the United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001. ...

Alonso de Ercilla Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (7 August 153329 November 1594) was a Spanish soldier and poet, born in Madrid. While in Chile (1556–63) he fought against the Araucanians (Mapuche), and there he began the epic poem ''La Araucana'', considered one o ...

– ''

La Araucana ''La Araucana'' (also known in English as ''The Araucaniad'') is a 16th-century epic poem in Spanish by Alonso de Ercilla, about the Spanish Conquest of Chile. It was considered the national epic of the Captaincy General of Chile and one of the ...

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Bernard Fall Bernard B. Fall (November 19, 1926 – February 21, 1967) was a prominent war correspondent, historian, political scientist, and expert on Indochina during the 1950s and 1960s. Born in Austria, he moved with his family to France as a child after ...

* Ferdinand Foch *

Frederick II of Prussia Frederick II (german: Friedrich II.; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was King in Prussia from 1740 until 1772, and King of Prussia from 1772 until his death in 1786. His most significant accomplishments include his military successes in the Sil ...

Sextus Julius Frontinus Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. 40 – 103 AD) was a prominent Roman civil engineer, author, soldier and senator of the late 1st century AD. He was a successful general under Domitian, commanding forces in Roman Britain, and on the Rhine and Danube ...

– ''Stratagemata'' * J.F.C. Fuller – theoretician of tank warfare * Paul Fussell

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Pierre Marie Gallois Pierre Marie Gallois (29 June 1911 – 24 August 2010) was a French air force brigadier general and Geopolitics, geopolitician. He was instrumental in the constitution of the France and nuclear weapons, French nuclear arsenal, and is conside ...

Azar Gat Azar Gat (born 1959 in Haifa, Israel) is a researcher and author on military history, military strategy and war and peace in general. Along with Steven Pinker and others, Gat argues that war is in decline in today's world. He is currently Ezer W ...

Charles de Gaulle Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government ...

– ''Vers l'Armée de Métier'' (1934), ''La France et son Armée'' (1938) (partial

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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 Lester W. Grau is the Research Coordinator for the Foreign Military Studies Office at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Defense Language Institute (Russian) and the U.S. Army's Institute for Advanced Russian and Eastern E ...

* Robert Greene – ''

The 33 Strategies of War ''The 33 Strategies of War'' was written by American author Robert Greene in 2006. It is composed of discussions and examples of offensive and defensive strategies from a wide variety of people and conditions, applying them to social conflicts ...

'', '' The 48 Laws of Power'' *

George Grivas George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd President ...

* Heinz Guderian – German general, developed principles of

Blitzkrieg Blitzkrieg ( , ; from 'lightning' + 'war') is a word used to describe a surprise attack using a rapid, overwhelming force concentration that may consist of armored and motorized or mechanized infantry formations, together with close air su ...

, ''

Achtung – Panzer! ''Achtung – Panzer!'' (English: "Attention, Tank!" or, more idiomatically, "Beware the Tank!"), written by Heinz Guderian, a German World War II tank commander, is a book on the application of motorized warfare. First published in 1937, it ex ...

'' *

Ernesto Che Guevara Ernesto Che Guevara (; 14 June 1928The date of birth recorded on /upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Ernesto_Guevara_Acta_de_Nacimiento.jpg his birth certificatewas 14 June 1928, although one tertiary source, (Julia Constenla, quoted ...

– Argentinian revolutionary, diary outlined the guerrilla war being fought in

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. ''

Guerrilla Warfare Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which small groups of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or Irregular military, irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, Raid (military), raids ...

'' * Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte de Guibert

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David Hackworth David Haskell Hackworth (November 11, 1930 – May 4, 2005), also known as Hack, was a prominent journalist, military journalist and a famous former United States Army colonel who was decorated in both the Korean War and Vietnam War. Hackworth ...

* Bruce Barrymore Halpenny – ''Airfields'', ''World War Two'', ''Bomber and Fighter Command'' *

Thomas X. Hammes Colonel Thomas X. Hammes is a retired U.S. Marine officer who is considered a specialist in counter-insurgency warfare. Education He has a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy, a master's degree from Oxford University, ...

* Victor Davis Hanson * Gustav Hasford * Joel Hayward * Herodotus * Jonathan House *

Sir Michael Howard Sir Michael Eliot Howard (29 November 1922 – 30 November 2019) was an English military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, Honorary Fellow of All Souls College, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University ...

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Kanji Ishiwara was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. He and Itagaki Seishirō were the men primarily responsible for the Mukden Incident that took place in Manchuria in 1931. Early life Ishiwara was born in Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Pref ...

– '' Sekai Saishū Senron (On World Final War)''

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Jiang Ziya Jiang Ziya ( century BC – century BC), also known by several other names, was a Chinese noble who helped kings Wen and Wu of Zhou overthrow the Shang in ancient China. Following their victory at Muye, he continued to serve ...

– ''

Six Secret Teachings The ''Six Secret Teachings'' (), is a treatise on civil and military strategy traditionally attributed to Lü Shang (aka Jiang Ziya), a top general of King Wen of Zhou, founder of the Zhou dynasty The Zhou dynasty ( ; Old Chinese ( B&S): *' ...

'' * Michael Johns – foreign policy and national security analyst and writer *

Antoine Henri Jomini Antoine-Henri Jomini (; 6 March 177922 March 1869) was a Swiss military officer who served as a general in French and later in Russian service, and one of the most celebrated writers on the Napoleonic art of war. Jomini's ideas are a staple at ...

– 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''

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Herman Kahn Herman Kahn (February 15, 1922 – July 7, 1983) was a founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century. He originally came to prominence as a military strategist and systems theori ...

* John Keegan – military historian * Paul Kennedy * David Kilcullen * Howard Kippenberger – New Zealand general and military historian * Henry Kissinger *

Shen Kuo Shen Kuo (; 1031–1095) or Shen Gua, courtesy name Cunzhong (存中) and pseudonym Mengqi (now usually given as Mengxi) Weng (夢溪翁),Yao (2003), 544. was a Chinese polymathic scientist and statesman of the Song dynasty (960–1279). Shen wa ...

– ''

Dream Pool Essays ''The Dream Pool Essays'' (or ''Dream Torrent Essays'') was an extensive book written by the Chinese polymath and statesman Shen Kuo (1031–1095), published in 1088 during the Song dynasty (960–1279) of China. Shen compiled this encycloped ...

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John Knox Laughton Sir John Knox Laughton (23 April 1830 – 14 September 1915) was a British naval historian and arguably the first to delineate the importance of the subject of Naval history as an independent field of study. Beginning his working life as a mathe ...

T. E. Lawrence Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918 ...

– colloquially known as "Lawrence of Arabia" * Leo VI the Wise – Byzantine emperor (''Taktika'') *

"Yank" Levy Bert "Yank" Levy (October 5, 1897September 2, 1965) was a Canadian soldier, socialist, military instructor and author/pamphleteer of one of the first manuals on guerrilla warfare, which was widely circulated with more than a half million publis ...

– author of pamphlet ''Guerrilla Warfare'' *

John David Lewis John David Lewis (March 17, 1955 – January 3, 2012) was a political scientist, historian and Objectivist scholar who held the post of visiting associate professor in the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program at Duke University from 2008 ...

* B. H. Liddell-Hart – proponent of the " indirect approach" *

William S. Lind William S. Lind (born July 9, 1947) is an American conservative author, described as being aligned with paleoconservatism. He is the author of many books and one of the first proponents of fourth-generation warfare (4GW) theory and is the Direct ...

* Liu Bowen – '' Huolongjing'' *

Stephen B. Luce Stephen Bleecker Luce (March 25, 1827 – July 28, 1917) was a U.S. Navy admiral. He was the founder and first president of the Naval War College, between 1884 and 1886. Biography Born in Albany, New York, to Dr. Vinal Luce and Charlotte Bleecke ...

* Edward Luttwack – theorist, identified the 'Dynamic Paradox' of strategy

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Douglas Macgregor Douglas Abbott Macgregor (born January 4, 1953) is a retired U.S. Army colonel and government official, and an author, consultant, and television commentator. He played a significant role on the battlefield in the 1990-91 Gulf War and the 1999 N ...

* 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 – prominent German general in World War II * Mao Zedong –

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of va ...

leader and guerrilla theorist, ''

On Guerrilla Warfare ''On Guerrilla Warfare'' () is Mao Zedong's case for the extensive use of an irregular form of warfare in which small groups of combatants use mobile military tactics in the forms of ambushes and raids to combat a larger and less mobile formal a ...

'' *

Carlos Marighella Carlos Marighella (; 5 December 1911 – 4 November 1969) was a Brazilian politician, writer, and guerrilla fighter of Marxist–Leninist orientation. He was accused of engaging in "terrorist acts" against the Brazilian military dictatorshi ...

– 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 Steven Kent Metz (born June 30, 1956 in Charleston, West Virginia) is an American author and professor of national security and strategy at the U.S. Army War College specializing in insurgency and counterinsurgency, American defense policy, strateg ...

* Billy Mitchell *

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder Helmuth is both a masculine German given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name; *Helmuth Theodor Bossert (1889–1961), German art historian, philologist and archaeologist *Helmuth Duckadam (born 1959), Romanian forme ...

– theorist and strategist; "father" of '' mission-type tactics'' and the German field manual for unit commanders * François-Henri de Montmorency *

Robin Moore Robert Lowell Moore Jr. (October 31, 1925 – February 21, 2008) was an American writer who wrote '' The Green Berets'', '' The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy'', and with Xaviera Hollander and ...

– ''The Hunt for Bin Laden: Task Force Dagger'' * Miyamoto Musashi – '' The Book of Five Rings''

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Napoleon I of France Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...

Abdul Haris Nasution General of the Army Abdul Haris Nasution ( Old Spelling: Abdoel Haris Nasution; 3 December 1918 – 6 September 2000), was a high-ranking Indonesian general and politician. He served in the military during the Indonesian National Revolution an ...

* Sönke Neitzel – author of ''Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying'' * Michel Ney

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Weston Ochse Weston Ochse (born 1965 in Gillette, Wyoming) is an American author and educator. He has won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize for his short fiction. His novel SEAL Team 666 is currently bein ...

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* 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 Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq (19 October 1821 – 18 August 1870) was a French Army officer and military theorist of the mid-nineteenth century whose writings, as they were later interpreted by other theorists, had a great effect ...

– French military theorist, ''Battle Studies'' *

Lucien Poirier Lucien Poirier (1918 – 10 January 2013) was a general of the French Army and a theoretician of nuclear deterrence. Military career Poirier began his military service at the beginning of World War II, after graduating from Special Militar ...

* Polyaenus * H. John Poole *

Douglas Porch Douglas Porch (born December 29, 1944) is an American military historian and academic. He currently serves as a Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, and is the former Chair of the Department of National Secur ...

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Sima Rangju Sima Rangju (Chinese:司馬穰苴) or Tian Rangju (Chinese: 田穰苴) (dates of birth and death unknown) was a famous Chinese military general during the Spring and Autumn period, often seen as the spiritual successor of Jiang Ziya. He served in ...

– ''

The Methods of the Sima ''The Methods of the Sima'' (, also known as ''The Marshal's Art of War'') is a text discussing laws, regulations, government policies, military organization, military administration, discipline, basic values, tactics, and strategy. It is consi ...

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Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Publius (or Flavius) Vegetius Renatus, known as Vegetius (), was a writer of the Later Roman Empire (late 4th century). Nothing is known of his life or station beyond what is contained in his two surviving works: ''Epitoma rei militaris'' (also re ...

– ''

De Re Militari ''De re militari'' (Latin "Concerning Military Matters"), also ''Epitoma rei militaris'', is a treatise by the Late Latin writer Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus about Roman warfare and military principles as a presentation of the methods and pr ...

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Erwin Rommel Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel () (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) was a German field marshal during World War II. Popularly known as the Desert Fox (, ), he served in the ''Wehrmacht'' (armed forces) of Nazi Germany, as well as servi ...

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German field marshal Field marshal (german: Generalfeldmarschall) was usually the highest military rank in various Germany, German armed forces. It had existed, under slightly different names, in several German states since 1631. After the unification of Germany it w ...

during World War II, '' Infantry Attacks'' (''Infanterie greift an''), armored battle theory * Cornelius Ryan – '' The Longest Day'', '' A Bridge Too Far'', '' The Last Battle''

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* Philip Sabin * Thomas Schelling *

Sigismund von Schlichting Sigismund Wilhelm Lorenz von Schlichting (3 October 1829 – 22 October 1909) was a Prussian general and military theorist, perhaps best known for his participation in the debates over infantry tactics in the 1880s and 1890s. Schlichting was ...

– 19th-century infantry theorist *

Ayesha Siddiqa Ayesha Siddiqa ( ur, ), (born April 7, 1966), is a Pakistani political scientist, a political commentator and an author who serves as a research associate at the SOAS South Asia Institute. She previously served as the inaugural Pakistan Fellow ...

Lynette Silver Lynette Ramsay Silver (born 1945) is an Australian historian and author. She has written a number of books dealing with Australian history. In particular many of her works deal with military history. Career Her first book published in 1986, ' ...

* Richard Simpkin – military theorist * Thomas Smith *

Vasily Sokolovsky Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky (russian: Васи́лий Дани́лович Соколо́вский; July 21, 1897 – May 10, 1968) was a Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front (World War II) ...

* David Stahel – military historian with a focus on Operation Barbarossa and the

Battle of Moscow The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front (World War II), Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between September 1941 and January ...

Hew Strachan Sir Hew Francis Anthony Strachan ( ), (born 1 September 1949) is a British military historian, well known for his leadership in scholarly studies of the British Army and the history of the First World War. He is currently professor of internati ...

– 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''

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* Aeneas Tacticus * A.J.P. Taylor *

Wallace Terry Wallace Houston Terry, II (April 21, 1938 – May 29, 2003) was an African-American journalist and oral historian, best known for his book about black soldiers in Vietnam, ''Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War'' (1984), which served as a ...

* Thucydides – '' History of the Peloponnesian War'' *

Eduard Totleben Franz Eduard Graf von Tottleben (russian: Эдуа́рд Ива́нович Тотле́бен, tr. ; – ), better known as Eduard Totleben in English, was a Baltic German military engineer and Imperial Russian Army general. He was in char ...

* Hugh Trenchard * Yamamoto Tsunetomo – '' Hagakure'' *

Barbara Tuchman Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (; January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for ''The Guns of August'' (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World ...

– historian * Mikhail Tukhachevsky

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Matthew Uttley Matthew R. H. Uttley , born in 1965, is a British academic best known for his published work on the historical and contemporary dimensions of defence economics, weapons acquisition, and United Kingdom defence policy. He is a Fellow of the Royal S ...

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* Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban * Vegetius *

Julius von Verdy du Vernois Adrian Friedrich Wilhelm Julius Ludwig von Verdy du Vernois (19 July 1832 – 30 September 1910), often given the short name of Verdy, was a German general and staff officer, chiefly noted both for his military writings and his service on ...

– 19th-century general and theorist * Võ Nguyên Giáp – North Vietnamese general who was a key figure in their success in the Vietnam War, decisive in victory at the

Battle of Dien Ben Phu The Battle of Dien Bien Phu (french: Bataille de Diên Biên Phu ; vi, Chiến dịch Điện Biên Phủ, ) was a climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War that took place between 13 March and 7 May 1954. It was fought between the Fr ...

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* Wang Li – the Master of Ghost Valley * H. G. Wells * Bing West – military historian *

Gordon Williamson (writer) Gordon Williamson (born 1951) is a military history writer and author based in the United Kingdom. Williamson spent seven years with the Military Police in the British Territorial Army (United Kingdom), Territorial Army and, as of 2016, resides ...

military reference books * Garnet Wolseley * Wu Qi – ''

Wuzi The ''Wuzi'' () is a classic Chinese work on military strategy attributed to Wu Qi. It is considered one of China's Seven Military Classics. It is said there were two books on the art of war by Wu Qi, but one was lost, hence leaving the ''Wuzi' ...

'' *Kenneth Wash -- The Final Defense, Flags of Vengeance

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* Xenophon – '' Anabasis'' and ''

Hellenica ''Hellenica'' ( grc, Ἑλληνικά) simply means writings on Greek (Hellenic) subjects. Several histories of 4th-century Greece, written in the mould of Thucydides or straying from it, have borne the conventional Latin title ''Hellenica''. Th ...

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Wang Xiangsui Wang Xiangsui (王湘穗, born October 1, 1954) is a professor at Beihang University in Beijing, China and a retired senior Colonel in the People's Liberation Army. He is also a co-author of ''Unrestricted Warfare'', a book which dictates that no c ...

– '' Unrestricted Warfare''

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* Jiao Yu

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* Zhuge Liang – strategist from The

Three Kingdoms era The Three Kingdoms () from 220 to 280 AD was the tripartite division of China among the dynastic states of Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu. The Three Kingdoms period was preceded by the Eastern Han dynasty and was followed by the West ...

, '' The General's Garden''

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