List of military writers
The following is a list of military writers, alphabetical by last name:
A
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 – 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 – Treason, Hostage, Defiance, Last Fighter Pilot, Malacca Conspiracy
C
- Tobias Capwell (born c. 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, 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
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E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
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
- Stepan Makarov – Russian vice admiral, innovator, naval strategist
- Erich von Manstein – prominent German general in World War II
- Mao Zedong – Chinese leader and guerrilla theorist, On Guerrilla Warfare
- 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
- 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 – theorist and strategist; "father" of mission-type tactics and the German field manual for unit commanders
- François-Henri de Montmorency
- Robin Moore – The Hunt for Bin Laden: Task Force Dagger
- Miyamoto Musashi – The Book of Five Rings
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O
P
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
See also
References
- ^ "Victor Davis Hanson".
- ^ "Võ Nguyên Giáp". id.oclc.org. Retrieved 2023-07-30.