List of military writers (original) (raw)

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 Z��iga, 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 Trait� des grandes op�rations militaires (Treatise on Grand Military Operations)
• Niccolo Machiavelli, political theorist, author of 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