List of military writers
This is a
list of military writers. Alphabetical by last name.
- Bayo, Anton
- Boyd, John, inventor of the OODA Loop or decision cycle.
- Caesar, Julius, author of Gallic Wars, Alexandrian Wars, etc.
- Clausewitz, Carl von, general and author of On War
- Ercilla, Alonso de y ZÃÂúÃÂñiga, author of La Araucana
- Frontinus, Sextus Julius, author of the Stratagemata
- Fuller, J.F.C, theoretician of tank warfare
- 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
- Jomini, Antoine Henri, general, wrote on the Napoleonic Wars including Precis de l'Art de la Guerre (Precis on the Art of War) and TraitÃÂé des grandes opÃÂérations militaires (Treatise on Grand Military Operations)
- Keegan, John, Military Historian
- Machiavelli, Niccolo, political theorist, author of The Prince and Dell'arte della guerra (The Art of War)
- Mahan, Alfred Thayer, naval strategist
- Marighela, Carlos, Brazilian "urban guerrilla", wrote Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla
- Martin, Tyrone G, USS Constitution expert
- Schalk, Emil, Summary of the Art of War
- Tzu, Sun, general and author of The Art of War
- Thucydides, author of History of the Peloponnesian War
- Xenophon, his Anabasis recording the Greeks march out of Asia Minor
- Tsunetomo, Yamamoto, author of Hagakure
- Zedong, Mao, Chinese dictator and guerilla theorist
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