List of military writers

This is a list of military writers.

• Anton Bayo
• John Boyd, inventor of the OODA Loop or decision cycle.
• Julius Caesar, author of Gallic Wars, Alexandrian Wars, etc.
• Carl von Clausewitz, general and author of On War
• Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, author of La Araucana
• Sextus Julius Frontinus - author of the Stratagemata
• J.F.C. Fuller, theoretician of tank warfare
• Ernesto Che Guevara, Argentinian revolutionary
• B.H. Liddell Hart, proponent of the "indirect approach", influential on all 20th century military thinking
• 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)
• Niccolo Machiavelli, political theorist, author of The Prince and Dell'arte della guerra (The Art of War)
• Alfred Thayer Mahan, naval strategist
• Carlos Marighela
• Mao Zedong, Chinese dictator and guerilla theorist
• Tyrone G. Martin, USS Constitution expert
• Emil Schalk, Summary of the Art of War
• Sun Tzu, general and author of The Art of War
• Thucydides Author of The Peloponnesian War
• Xenophon
• Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Author of Hagakure

See also: Lists of authors, Military history, List of authors in war