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* [[Hellmuth Heye]] (1895–1970), German vice admiral, Ombudsman for the Military (”Wehrbeauftragter”), and military writer

* [[Franz Hinterstoisser]] (1863–1933), Austrian aeronaut and military writer

* [[Jochen Hippler]] <small>[[:de:Jochen Hippler|(de)]]</small> (born 1955), German political scientist; ”Counterinsurgency – Theorien unkonventioneller Kriegführung: Callwell, Thompson, Smith und das US Army [[FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency|Field Manual 3-24]] (in: Thomas Jäger/Rasmus Beckmann (Hg.): ”Handbuch Kriegstheorien”, Wiesbaden 2011, S. 256-28)

* [[Jaromir Hirtenfeld]], originally ”Csikos” (1816–1872), Austro-Hungarian military writer, owner and editor-in-chief of the ”[[Militär-Zeitung]]”

* [[Hồ Chí Minh]] (1890–1969), Vietnamese revolutionary and communist politician (”The Armed Uprising”, etc.)

This is a list of military theorists and writers. Its focus is on military theory (military science and military strategy) and military history from ancient times to the present.

The list is broadly defined. It provides an alphabetical overview of important authors in the field of military science and military strategy, including military thinkers, military theorists, military authors, strategists, military historians, memorabilia writers, and others. The list does not claim to be complete or up-to-date. Various biographical details, major works, and other relevant information are provided.

Famous works include, for example, The Art of War by Sunzi (Sun Wu), The Art of War by Machiavelli, On War by Carl von Clausewitz, or Guerrilla Warfare (La guerra de guerrillas) by Che Guevara.

Donald Abenheim (born 1953), US military historian
Youssef H. Aboul-Enein (de) (born 1970), American military officer and military writer; Islamic Rulings on Warfare (with Sherifa Zuhur)
Aelianus Tacticus (1st–2nd century), Greek military writer, Tactica
Georg von Alten (de) (1846–1912), general, military writer, editor of Handbuch für Heer und Flotte. Enzyklopädie der Kriegswissenschaften und verwandter Gebiete (Handbook for the Army and Navy. Encyclopaedia of Military Science and Related Fields)
Aniceto Afonso (de) (born 1942), Portuguese military historian, Guerra Colonial (with Carlos de Matos Gomes)
Agathias (6th century), Eastern Roman historian, wrote about the wars of Justinian
Aineas the Tactician (Aeneas Tacticus, first half of the 4th century BC), Greek strategist and military writer
John R. Allen (born 1953), American military officer; Future War and the Defence of Europe (Oxford 2021, with Frederick B. Hodges and Julian Lindley-French)
Ammianus Marcellinus (4th century), Roman historian
James F. Amos (born 1946), United States Marine Corps general; the US Army manual FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency was created by General David H. Petraeus and him
Gerhard von Amyntor (1831–1910) (Dagobert von Gerhardt), military officer and writer; Der Antagonismus Frankreichs und Englands vom politisch-militairischen Standpunkte und die Wahrscheinlichkeit einer französischen Truppenlandung auf der englischen Südküste (1860)
John Antal (born 1955), American author and US Army veteran, contributions to military anthologies such as Maneuver Warfare, Digital War and By Their Deeds Alone
Appian, Roman historian, wrote about the Roman civil wars
Arkolay (i.e., Johann Woldemar Streubel) (1827–1873, Illenau Asylum), Saxon military writer
Armand von Ardenne (1848–1919), general, military writer
John Arquilla (born 1954), American political scientist (Professor and Chair at the Department of Defense Analysis)
Arrian (c. 85/90 – after 145/46), The Campaigns of Alexander on the campaigns of Alexander the Great
Robert B. Asprey (1923–2009), US officer, military writer; War in the Shadows: The Guerrilla in History (1975)
Edouard Edmond Aublet (1854-1895), French officer, military writer; La guerre au Dahomey, 1888-1893 : d’après les documents officiels
Mariano d’Ayala (1808–1877), Italian military officer, politician, and writer
Hyacinthe Aube (1826–1890), French admiral and Minister of the Navy, co-founder of the Jeune École

William Balck (1858–1941), general, military writer; Taktik (6 volumes, Eisenschmidt, Berlin, c. 1900-10); Entwickelung der Taktik im Weltkriege (2nd, significantly expanded edition, Berlin 1922)
Oreste Baratieri (1841–1901), Italian military officer and colonial administrator, served as the governor of Eritrea from 1892 to 1896; Memorie d´Africa (Turin 1898; French version: Mémoires d´Afrique (1892-1896), Paris 1899)
Bardet de Villeneuve (es) (18th century), military writer and theorist; Cours de la science militaire à l’usage de l’infanterie, de la cavalerie, de l’artillerie, du génie et de la marine (1740)
Étienne Alexandre Bardin (1774–1841), French general, author of a Manuel d’infanterie Digital copy (4th ed., Paris 1813) and the comprehensive Dictionnaire de l’armée de terre, ou Recherches historiques sur l’art et les usages militaires des anciens et des modernes. 17 vols., Paris: J. Corréard, 1841–1851 (Online excerpts: “Auteur militaire” & “Bibliothèque militaire“)
Muhammad Ahmad Bashmil (محمد بن أحمد باشميل): The Great Battle of Badr
Christopher Bassford (born 1953), American military historian, The Spit-Shine Syndrome: Organizational Irrationality in the American Field Army, with a Foreword by Lt. Gen. Robert M. Elton (Greenwood Press, Westport, CT 1988)
Jacques Baud (fr) (born 1955), member of the Swiss strategic intelligence service, security expert, Eastern Europe specialist
Floribert Baudet (born 1971), Dutch military historian
Wolf Stefan Traugott Graf von Baudissin (1907–1993), German lieutenant general, military theorist and peace researcher
Alberto Bayo (1892–1967), Latin American revolutionary, author of 150 preguntas a un guerrillero (150 Questions to a Guerrilla Fighter), a guerrilla warfare manual
Raimond de Beccarie de Pavie, Seigneur de Fourquevaux (1505/1508–1574), French noble, governor, military commander and diplomat during the latter Italian Wars and first French Wars of Religion; Instructions sur le fait de la Guerre (Paris 1548 – sélections)
André Beaufre (1902–1975): French officer, military writer; An Introduction to Strategy; Strategy of Deterrence; Strategy of Action
Ian F. W. Beckett (born 1950), British military historian; with John Pimlott (eds.): Counter-Insurgency. Lessons from History, London 1985 (ND Barnsley 2011); (ed.): The Roots of counter-insurgency. Armies and guerilla warfare, 1900-1945 (London 1988)
Walther Beckmann (20th cent.), officer, military writer; (ed.) Unsere Kolonien und Schutztruppen – Das Ehrenbuch der Überseekämpfer – unter Mitarbeit von Major a.D. Otto Müller für die Abschnitte “Land und Leute” der afrikanischen Kolonien, sowie von Walter Merzdorf für die Abschnitte “Kolonien und Flotte”, “Kiautschou” und “Südsee” (Kyffhäuser-Verlag, Berlin 1934); Ludendorff als Mensch und Feldherr (Berlin 1935); (ed.) Helden der Luft
Heinrich Beitzke (1798–1867), military writer
Guillaume du Bellay, Seigneur de Langeay (1491-1543); wrongly attributed: Instructions sur le fait de la guerre (Paris 1548) (with full title: Instructions sur le fait de la Guerre, extraites des livres de Polybe, Frontin, Vegece, Cornazan, Machiavelle, et plusieurs autres bons auteurs) (see under Raimond de Beccarie de Pavie, Seigneur de Fourquevaux)
Albert Benary (1881–1963), officer and military writer
Georg Heinrich von Berenhorst (1733–1814), military writer
Karl Gustav von Berneck, pseudonym: Bernd von Guseck (1805–1871), novelist and military writer
Friedrich von Bernhardi (1849–1930), Prussian cavalry general and military historian; Deutschland und der nächste Krieg (Germany and the Next War)
Carlo Bianco (1795–1843), Italian revolutionary; Della guerra d’insurrezione nazionale per le bande applicata all’Italia (1830)
Keith Bickel, US military historian
Eugen Bircher (1882–1956), Swiss officer, military writer and politician
Andrew J. Birtle (born 1957), US military historian (U.S. Army Center of Military History); U.S. Army counterinsurgency and contingency operations doctrine 1860-1941 (Washington, DC 1998), U.S. Army counterinsurgency and contingency operations doctrine 1942-1976 (Washington, DC 2006)
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Bismarck (1783–1860), Württemberg lieutenant general, diplomat, military writer, responsible after the accession of William I for reorganizing the mounted forces, lifelong member of the chamber of Estates of Württemberg
Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930), Australian historian; The Causes of War (1973)
Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805–1881), French socialist revolutionary; Instructions pour une prise d’armes (1866)
Albert von Boguslawski (de) (1834–1905), Der kleine Krieg und seine Bedeutung für die Gegenwart (Berlin 1881); he translated Précis de l’art de la guerre (Summary of the Art of War) of Jomini into German (Digital copy; Militärische Klassiker des In- und Auslandes)
Daniel P. Bolger (born 1957), American military officer and military historian
Viktor Nikolayevich Bondarev (born 1959), Russian colonel general, from August 2015 to September 2017 Commander of the Air and Space Forces; Грозное небо. Авиация в современных конфликтах / Thunder Sky: Aviation in Modern Conflicts (ed.)
Honorat Bovet (14th century) (attributed): L’Arbre des batailles (Digital copy)
John Boyd (1927–1997), military strategist, inventor of the OODA-Loop or decision cycle
Antoine Fortuné de Brack (1789–1850), French general and miltary theorist; Avant-postes de cavalerie légère (Advance Posts of Light Cavalry) (1831)
Horst-Heinrich Brauß (born 1953), German military officer
Gary Brecher (born 1955), author of War Nerd (Warriors of War)
Walter von Bremen (1852–?), Oberst; German officer; Die Kolonialtruppen und Kolonialarmeen der Hauptmächte Europas. Ihre geschichtliche Entwicklung und ihr gegenwärtiger Zustand (Bielefeld/Leipzig 1902)
Arthur L. Bresler, military writer; Die Armee der Vereinigten Staaten in Nordamerika. Mit Abbildungen von Offizieren und Soldaten aller Truppengattungen, sowie von Uniforms- und Rangabzeichen, Ausrüstungsgegenständen, etc., nebst genauer Beschreibung der Uniformirung und Mittheilungen über Organisation, Stärke, Eintheilung und Dislocation der nordamerikanischen Armee, sowie der Milizen (M. Ruhl, Leipzig 1891)
Antony Brett-James (1920–1984), British military historian
Henri Alexis Brialmont (1821–1903), Belgian general and military writer
Bernard Brodie (1910–1978): War and Politics (1973); Strategy in the Missile Age (1959)
Reinhard Brühl (de) (1924-2018), German officer, director of the Militärgeschichtlichen Instituts der DDR; editor-in-chief of Wörterbuch zur deutschen Militärgeschichte (in 2 vols. = Schriften des Militärgeschichtlichen Instituts der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik; Berlin, Militärverlag der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, 1985)
Tanja Bührer (de) (born 1974), Swiss historian; edited together with Markus Pöhlmann, Daniel Marc Segesser: Globale Akteure an den Randzonen von Souveränität und Legitimität. (Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2013)
Thomas Robert Bugeaud de la Piconnerie (1784–1849), Marshal of France, largely responsible for the conquest of Algeria: La guerre des rues et des maisons
Adam Heinrich Dietrich von Bülow (1757–1807), military writer; Neue Taktik der Neuern wie sie seyn sollte (Leipzig, 1805); Militärische und vermischte Schriften (Leipzig, 1853)
Valentin Busuioc (born 1965), Romanian poet and playwright

James Cable (1920–2001), British diplomat and naval strategic thinker; Gunboat Diplomacy. Political Applications of Limited Naval Force (London 1971)
Amílcar Cabral (1924–1973), one of Africa’s foremost anti-colonial leaders; Unity and Struggle. Speeches and Writings (1979); La descolonización del Africa portuguesa: Guinea-Bissau (1975)

*História geral das guerras angolanas* (1680), by *Capitão reformado e cidadão de S. Paulo da Assunção, natural de Vila Viçosa*

António de Oliveira de Cadornega (pt) (1623–1690), Portuguese military officer and historian who lived in Angola, História geral das guerras angolanas (General History of the Angolan Wars)
Gaius Iulius Caesar (100–44 BC), author of Gallic Wars (De bello Gallico) and Alexandrian War
Charles E. Callwell (1859–1928), British officer, military writer; Small Wars. Their Principles & Practice (published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London 1906)
Raúl Castro (born 1931), Cuban Communist politician and general; Operación antiaérea en el Segundo Frente “Frank País”, en junio de 1958 (Anti-aircraft operation on the Second Front ‘Frank País‘, in June 1958) (in Selección de discursos y artículos, 1959–1974, Editora Política, Havana 1988)
Henri-Pierre Cathala, counterintelligence worker, author of Le temps de la désinformation (The Age of Disinformation) (Digital copy)
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (1802–1857), French general and politician; De la régence d’Alger, note sur l’occupation (Victor Magen, Paris 1839)
Chanakya (c. 350–c. 283 BC), minister and closest advisor to the first emperor of the Maurya Empire Chandragupta Maurya, credited with the political treatise Arthashastra
V. Chareton, capitaine (1869-1915); Les Corps Francs dans la guerre moderne. Les moyens à leur opposer. Étude historique et critique sur l’attaque et la défense des vois de communication et des services de l’arrière (Paris 1900); Comment la Prusse a préparé sa revanche
Archduke Charles (1771–1847), Austrian commander and author of military writings
J. B. A. Charras (1810–1865), lieutenant colonel, French officer and military writer, exiled after the coup d’état in 1851 in Brussels, died in Basel
Paul Hay du Chastelet (1619-1682), military strategist and author; Traité de la guerre, ou politique militaire (chez Jean Guignard, 1668)
Bernhard Chiari (born 1965), officer, military historian

Carl von Clausewitz: *Vom Kriege* (Berlin 1832)

Wojciech Chrzanowski (1793–1861), Polish general and military theorist
James Connolly (1868–1916), Street Fighting (1915)
Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), Prussian general and military theorist; Vom Kriege (On War)
Julian Corbett (1854–1922), British naval historian and strategist; Some Principles of Naval Strategy (1911)
Antonio Cornazzano (1429–1484), Italian author; De re militari (Digital copy *)
Conrad C. Crane (born 1952), military strategist; director of the U.S. Army Military History Institute; Cassandra in Oz: Counterinsurgency and Future War (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis 2016)
Martin van Creveld (born 1946), theorist of a new military science (guerrilla and terrorism); The Transformation of War (New York 1991)
José Raimundo da Cunha Matos (1776–1839), Brazilian military historian, founding member of the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute
Elisabeth B. Custer (1842–1933), widow of Brevet Major General Custer, memoir writer: Dicht am Feinde. Leben einer amerikanischen Offiziersfamilie im fernen Westen (Berlin 1887; Digital copy)

Hans von Dach (1926–2003), Swiss officer, military writer, author of Total Resistance (Der totale Widerstand: Kleinkriegsanleitung für Jedermann) (Digital copy)
Gustav Däniker (1896–1947), Swiss staff officer and military writer
Gustav Däniker Jr. (1928–2000), Swiss divisional general and military publicist
Leo Daugherty (born 1956), US military historian; Counterinsurgency and the United States Marine Corps. The First Counterinsurgency Era, 1899-1945 (Jefferson, NC 2015)
Denis Vasilyevich Davydov (1784–1839), Russian officer, writer and poet, author of a Theory of Partisan Warfare (1821)
Régis Debray (born 1940), French author; Révolution dans la révolution ? : Lutte armée et lutte politique en Amérique latine (Maspero, Paris 1967)
Carl von Decker (de) (1784–1844), Prussian officer, military writer; Der kleine Krieg im Geiste der neueren Kriegführung (Berlin 1822; 4. Aufl. 1844; 3rd ed.); Algerien und die dortige Kriegführung (Berlin 1842, vol. 1, part 2)
Hans Delbrück (1848–1929), German historian and politician; Geschichte der Kriegskunst im Rahmen der politischen Geschichte (History of the Art of War within the Framework of Political History)
B. C. Dening, Lieut. Col.; Modern War: Armies, not Air Forces, decide wars (1937)
Desroziers, capitaine: Combats de partisans (Journal des sciences militaires, 59^eannée, Paris 1883)
Devaureix, capitaine, adjudant-major au 135^e régiment d’infanterie; De la guerre des partisans, sonpassé, son avenir (Journal des sciences militaires, Paris, décembre 1880)
Isidor Didion (1798–1878), French general, author of classical writings on Ballistics
Wilhelm Dilich (1571–1650), also military writer
Dionysius of Halicarnassus (died after 7 BC), author of the Roman Antiquities
Maximilian von Ditfurth (1806–1861), Electorate of Hesse officer and military historian
Aubrey C. Dixon, British officer, military writer
Ernst von Dohnányi, US military writer (pseudonym)
Chris Donnelly (born 1946), British military scientist and intelligence officer working in NATO, author of Red Banner. Soviet Military System in Peace and War (1989)
Giulio Douhet (1869–1930), Italian general and theorist of Air Warfare; treatise Luftherrschaft („Il Dominio dell’Aria“)
Mikhail Ivanovich Dragomirov (1830–1905), the most famous military theorist in Russia
M. A. Drobow, Soviet military writer; Малая война партизанство и диверсии / Malaja vojna partizanstvo i diversii (Small war, guerrilla warfare, and sabotage, Moscow 1931)
Nikolai Dubrovin (1837–1904), Russian historian, academician and lieutenant general: History of the War and the Rule of the Russians in the Caucasus (6 vols., St. Petersburg 1871–1888), among others
Manuel Duero, Marqués del (1808–1874), Spanish military; Táctica de infanteria: instrucción de guerrillas (Departmentósito de la Guerra, Madrid 1864)
Guillaume Henri Dufour (1787–1875), general; Cours de tactique (Paris, 1851)
Pierre Dupont de l’Étang (1765–1840), French general during the French Revolution, under Napoleon and the restored monarchy, L’Art de la guerre, poème en dix chants. Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1838 (Digital copy)
Louis Durat-Lasalle (capitaine (1813–1848), dates unknown) French military writer, author of Code de l’Officier

Edward Mead Earle (1894–1954): Makers of Modern Strategy: Military Thought from Machiavelli to Hitler, ed. (1943) (Digital copy, 1952 edition)
Henry E. Eccles (1898–1986): Military Concepts and Philosophy (1965)
Franz von Edelsheim (1868–?), officer, military writer; Operationen über See. Eine Studie, von Freiherr von Edelsheim, Oberleutnant im 2. Garde-Ulanen-Regiment, commandirt zur Dienstleistung im Grossen Generalstabe (Verlag von R. Eisenschmidt, Berlin 1901)
Arthur Ehrhardt (1896–1971), officer, military writer; Der Kleinkrieg. Geschichtliche Erfahrungen und künftige Möglichkeiten. Potsdam 1935, 2nd ed., 1942, 3rd ed. 1944. American edition: Guerrilla Warfare. Lessons of the Past and Possibilities of the Future. Fort Leavenworth, KA 1936 (Command and General Staff School); see also Graue Bücherei
Andreas Emmerich (1737–1809); Der Partheygänger im Kriege oder der Nutzen eines Corps leichter Truppen für eine Armee, 1789 (English: The Partisan in War)
Tom Engelhardt (born 1944), American critic of US security and military policy
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), socialist politician, military writer, Karl Marx‘s lifelong friend („Kann Europa abrüsten?“)
Enver Bey / Enver Pascha (1881–1922), Ottoman general, military writer
Waldemar Erfurth (1879–1971), German military historian, strategist, and officer in three German armies; Die Überraschung im Kriege (Surprise in War; 1938)
Ludwig von Eimannsberger (1878–1945), Austrian general; The Tank Warfare (Munich 1934)
Ernst von Eisenhart-Rothe (1862–1947), German infantry general in World War I, Quartermaster General, 1917–1918 General Intendant of the Field Army, lieutenant general, military writer
Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (1533–1594), author of La Araucana
Bernardino de Escalante (c. 1537–after 1605), Spanish military theorist, Diálogos del arte militar (Seville, 1583)
Francisco Espoz y Mina (1781–1836), Spanish guerrilla leader and general; A Short Extract from the Life of General Mina (1825)
Eutropius (4th century), Roman historian, Breviarium ab urbe condita
Johann von Ewald (1744–1813), German army officer from Hesse-Kassel; Essay on Partisan Warfare (German: Abhandlung über den kleinen Krieg, Cassel 1785)

Georg Rudolph Fäsch (1710–1787), Saxon military officer and war historian
Erich von Falkenhayn (1861–1922), general
Eugen Farrell, officer, military writer
Dieter Farwick (born 1940), German brigadier general and military writer; Kleinkriege, die unterschätzte Kriegsform. Warum die Zukunft von Kriegen den Guerillas, Partisanen und Hackern gehört, Bad Schussenried (Gerhard Hess Verlag) o. J. (2016)
Ildefonse Favé (1812–1894), military writer, former adjutant to Emperor Napoleon III and later brigadier general
Hans von Felgenhauer (1863–1946), royal Prussian major general, military writer and poet
David M. Finkelstein, American historian, specializing in China (uscc.gov)
Flavius Vegetius Renatus (late 4th century), war theorist and author of a main work of ancient military science: Epitoma rei militaris
Florus, Roman historian, author of a short history of Rome
Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929): Les principes de la guerre („The Principles of War“, 1903)
Jean-Charles Chevalier de Folard (1669–1752), French officer and military theorist, author of Commentaires sur l’Histoire de Polybe (Amsterdam 1735, 7 vols.); Traité de la guerre de partisans (unpublished)
Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), also military writer
Curt von François (1852–1931), officer, military writer
Hans Frank (1939–2019), German vice admiral, president of the Federal Academy for Security Policy (Bundesakademie für Sicherheitspolitik, BAKS), military author
Hermann Franke (1878–1956), German officer; editor of Handbuch der neuzeitlichen Wehrwissenschaften (Walter de Gruyter & Co in Berlin und Leipzig)
T. H. C. Frankland (1879-1915), Major, miltary writer; Notes on Guerilla Warfare (The United Service Magazine, New Series, vol. 33)
Hugo von Freytag-Loringhoven (1855–1924), Prussian infantry general and military writer; Die Macht der Persönlichkeit im Kriege. Studien nach Clausewitz (The Power of Personality in War. Studies after Clausewitz, 1905)
Frederick the Great (1712–1786), military theorist; Militärische Schriften
Eugen Friese, officer, military writer; Braucht Deutschland eine Colonial-Armee? Dresden o.J. [1887] (3rd ed. 1887).
Leonhart Fronsperger (1520–1575): Von Kayserlichem Kriegßrechten (On Imperial War Rights). The most important German military writer of the 16th century, addressing warfare of his time
Sextus Iulius Frontinus (≈35–103), author of Strategemata
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze (1885–1925), Soviet army leader during the Russian Civil War
J. F. C. Fuller (1878–1966), British general, military writer, theorist of Armored Warfare

Joseph Gallieni (1849–1916), French general, governor of Madagascar and war minister: The Pacification of Madagascar; Madagascar de 1896 à 1905 (Tananarive 1905)
Karl Galster (1851–1931), German vice admiral, critic of the Tirpitz naval buildup
David Galula (1919–1966), French officer, military writer
Daniele Ganser (born 1972), Swiss historian and publicist, publications on NATO secret armies in Europe and military actions of NATO states
Makhmut Akhmetovich Gareyev (1923–2019), If War Comes Tomorrow? The Contours of Future Armed Conflict
Azar Gat (born 1959), Israeli military historian and theorist; The Development of Military Thought: The Nineteenth Century (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1992)

Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970), French general and statesman; La France et son armée (1938 – theory of armored warfare); Vers l’armée de métier (1934)
Gazurelli, Italian officer, military writer
F. Gershelman Фёдор Константинович Гершельман (1853–1927), Partisanskaia voina Партизанская война (St. Petersburg 1885)
Robert Ginsberg (born 1937): The Critique of War: Contemporary Philosophical Explorations (1969), ed.
Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843–1916), 19th century general and theorist of warfare
Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov (1910–1988), Soviet fleet admiral and naval strategist
Thomas-Antoine le Roy de Grandmaison (1715-1801), officier; La Petite Guerre, ou traité du service des troupes légères en campagne (s.l., s.p. 1756)
Lester W. Grau, American military historian, The Bear Went over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan (1996)
Todd Greentree; author of Crossroads of Intervention: Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Lessons from Central America (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2008)
Heinz Greiner (1895–1977), general, military writer
Samuel B. Griffith (1906–1983), US Marine Corps brigadier general and military historian
Georgios Grivas(-Dighenis) (1898–1974), Greek officer, military writer; Guerrilla Warfare and EOKA’s Struggle: A Politicomilitary Study
Georg Dietrich von der Groeben (1725–1794), Prussian lieutenant general and military writer, Krieges-Bibliothek oder gesammlete Beyträge zur Krieges-Wissenschaft (War Library or Collected Contributions to the Science of War) and continuation Neue Kriegsbibliothek (New War Library)
Erich Gröner (1901–1965), German naval author, author of standard works on German warships since 1815
Otto Groos (1882–1970), German admiral, military historian, author and lecturer on naval warfare
Heinz Guderian (1888–1954), German general, military writer, executor of the Blitzkrieg, author of Achtung – Panzer!
Bruce I. Gudmundsson (born 1959), Danish-US-American military historian

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967), Argentine revolutionary, whose diary depicts the fighting in Bolivia (Bolivian Diary); author of Guerrilla Warfare (La Guerra de Guerrillas)
Jacques Antoine Hippolyte Guibert (1743–1790), general and military writer
Karl Theophil Guichard (1724–1775), Prussian officer and military writer, confidant of Frederick the Great
Abraham Guillén (1913–1993), Spanish author, economist, and political theorist, developed a theory of urban guerrilla warfare; Philosophy of the Urban Guerrilla
Guo Rugui 郭汝瑰 (1907–1997): Chinese Military History 中国军事史, 1980s (ed.)

Robert Habermaas (1856–1921), major general and military writer
Hans von Haeften (1870–1937), general, military writer
Werner Hahlweg (1912–1989), military historian; Typologie des modernen Kleinkriegs (1967); Guerilla – Krieg ohne Fronten (Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1968); Lehrmeister des Kleinen Krieges. Von Clausewitz bis Mao Tse-tung (1968)
Morton Halperin (born 1938): Contemporary Military Strategy (1967)
Muhammad Hamidullah (1908–2002): The Battlefields of Prophet Muhammad (Woking, England, 1953)
Edward Bruce Hamley (1824–1893), British general and military writer; The Operations of War (1866)
Samuel M. Harrington (1882–1948), officer of the United States Marine Corps with the rank of brigadier general, The Strategy and Tactics of Small Wars (1921)
Georg Hartmann (1865–1946), military writer; Der Krieg in Südafrika und seine Lehren für Deutsch-Südwestafrika (Berlin 1900)
Karl Haushofer (1869–1946), officer, university lecturer, military writer
Otto Heilbrunn (1906–1969), German-British lawyer, military writer
Herodian (died c. 250), author of History of the Empire after Marcus Aurelius
Herodot (died c. 430/20 BC), ancient Greek historian, author of the Histories
Beatrice Heuser (born 1961), historian and political scientist: Rebellen – Partisanen – Guerilleros. Asymmetrische Kriege von der Antike bis heute (Paderborn u.a. 2013); The Strategy Makers: Thoughts on War and Society from Machiavelli to Clausewitz (Greenwood/Praeger, Santa Monica, CA 2010)
Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte (1907–1994), officer, military writer; Der moderne Kleinkrieg als wehrpolitisches und militärisches Phänomen (Würzburg 1972)
Hellmuth Heye (1895–1970), German vice admiral, Ombudsman for the Military (Wehrbeauftragter), and military writer
Franz Hinterstoisser (1863–1933), Austrian aeronaut and military writer
Jochen Hippler (de) (born 1955), German political scientist; Counterinsurgency – Theorien unkonventioneller Kriegführung: Callwell, Thompson, Smith und das US Army Field Manual 3-24 (in: Thomas Jäger/Rasmus Beckmann (Hg.): Handbuch Kriegstheorien, Wiesbaden 2011, S. 256-28)
Jaromir Hirtenfeld, originally Csikos (1816–1872), Austro-Hungarian military writer, owner and editor-in-chief of the Militär-Zeitung
Hồ Chí Minh (1890–1969), Vietnamese revolutionary and communist politician (The Armed Uprising, etc.)
Hoàng Văn Thái (1915–1986), Vietnamese Army General and communist politician; Some aspects of guerrilla warfare in Viet Nam (Hanoi, 1965)
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), English philosopher; Leviathan
Frederick Benjamin „Ben“ Hodges (born 1958), US military officer (Center for European Policy Analysis)
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852–1925), Chief of the General Staff of the entire armed forces of Austria-Hungary at the start of World War I, Field Marshal since 1916
Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1827–1892), prince, general of artillery and military writer, Pour le Mérite; Strategische Briefe (Strategic Letters)
Albert von Holleben (1835–1906), Prussian infantry general and military writer, appointed Governor of Mainz in 1893
Albert Hopman (1865–1942), German vice admiral and military writer
Karl Hron (1852–1912); Der Parteigänger-Krieg (Seidel & Sohn, Wien 1885)
Walter Hülsen (1863–1947), general, military writer
Abel Hugo (1798–1855), France militaire: histoire des armées françaises de terre et de mer de 1792 à 1837. 1838 (5 vols.)

Thomas Jäger (de) (born 1960), German political scientist; (with Rasmus Beckmann, eds.): Handbuch Kriegstheorien (Wiesbaden 2011 – content)
Max Jähns (1837–1900), Prussian officer and military writer; Geschichte der Kriegswissenschaften, vornehmlich in Deutschland (3 volumes, München/Leipzig 1889–1891)
Rudolf August von Janson (1844–1917), Prussian officer, infantry general and military writer
Louis Michel de Jeney (Mihaly Lajos Jeney) (1723 or 1724–1797): Le partisan ou l’art de faire la petite-guerre avec succès selon le génie de nos jours détaillé sur des plans propres à faciliter l’intelligence des dispositions (Constapel, La Haye 1759)
John VII the Middle of Nassau-Siegen (1561–1623), military career, Verteidigungsbuch für die Grafschaft Nassau (Defense Book for the County of Nassau)
Michael Johns (born 1964), writer, foreign policy and security expert
R. F. Johnson, Capt.; Night attacks: a treatise on nocturnal tactics (London, 1886)
Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779–1869), baron, Swiss officer and military theorist, author of works on the Napoleonic Wars, including Traité de grande tactique, ou, Relation de la guerre de sept ans, extraite de Tempelhof, commentée at comparée aux principales opérations de la derniére guerre; avec un recueil des maximes les plus important de l’art militaire, justifiées par ces différents évenéments (Paris: Giguet et Michaud, 1805. In English translation as: Jomini, Antoine-Henri, trans. Col. S.B. Holabird, U.S.A. Treatise on Grand Military Operations: or A Critical and Military History of the Wars of Frederick the Great as Contrasted with the Modern System, 2 vols. New York: D. van Nostrand, 1865); Précis de l’Art de la Guerre (Summary of the Art of War) and Traité des grandes opérations militaires (Treatise on Major Military Operations)
Wolfgang Jung (de) (1938–2024), German peace activist, publications on drone strikes controlled via Ramstein Air Base (www.luftpost-kl.de)
Justinus (Justin), Roman historian

Kautilya’s Arthashastra, see under Chanakya
Hugo Kerchnawe (1872–1949), Austrian major general and military historian
Kimberly Ellen Kagan (born 1972), American military historian, heads the Institute for the Study of War
Nikolai Vasilievich Kaulbars (ru), Baron (1842–1905), general of the Russian army and military writer
Franz Georg Friedrich von Kausler (1794–1848): Napoleon’s Principles, Views and Statements on the Art of War, Military History and Warfare. Compiled from his Works and Correspondence. Leipzig, Baumgärtner 1827. Influential military writer for officer training of his time. Appointed member of the Royal Swedish Military Academy in Stockholm.
Hugo Kerchnawe (1872–1949), Austrian general and military writer
John Keegan (1934–2012), military historian
Egbert Broer Kielstra (1844–1920), Dutch KNIL officer, politician, and administrator; Beschrijving van den Atjeh-oorlog met gebruikmaking der officieele bronnen door het Departement van Koloniën, 3 parts (Van Cleef, Den Haag 1883, 1884, 1885)
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023), US Secretary of State, nuclear war theorist; The Necessity for Choice: Prospects of American Foreign Policy (1961)
Johannes Kladusch, military historian; Der kleine Krieg. Studien zum Heerwesen des Absolutismus (Wiesbaden 1973)
J. H. B. Köhler (1818–1873), Dutch officer, military writer; Eene nalezing van feiten tijdens de eerste expeditie tegen het rijk van Atjeh; naar aanleiding van het werk: Beschrijving van den Atjeh-Oorlog door E. B. Kielstra; met een aanhangsel (Rotterdam 1884)
Harald Kujat (born 1942), German general; Europa bewahren (Preserving Europe), etc.
Vladimir Vasilievich Kvachkov (born 1948), Russian former Spetsnaz colonel, military intelligence officer and writer
Konrad Kyeser (1366–after 1405), Bellifortis

Henry Lachouque (1883–1971) French officer and historian; Napoleon’s Battles (London, 1966)
Jean-Gérard Lacuée, count of Cessac (1752–1841), French general, minister of war and governor of the École polytechnique
Andrew Lambert (born 1956), British naval historian
Landry (14th century), French author; Le chevalier de La Tour et le Guidon des guerres
Alfred Langer (collective pseudonym; Tuure Lehén (1893–1976)); Der Weg zum Sieg. Die Kunst des bewaffneten Aufstandes (Berlin 1928)
Lester D. Langley (1940–2025), American historian, author of books about the relationship of the United States with Latin America and the Caribbean; The Banana Wars. United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934 (Lexington, KY 1985); with Thomas Schoonover (1936–2023): The Banana Men: American Mercenaries and Entrepeneurs in Central America, 1880-1930 (Lexington, KY 1995)
Werner von Langsdorff (Thor Goote) (1899–1940); Deutsche Flagge über Sand und Palmen. 53 Kolonialkrieger erzählen (Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1936)
Walter Laqueur (1921–2018), German-born American historian; The Guerrilla Reader A Historical Anthology (Philadelphia, 1977); Guerrilla Warfare. A Historical and Critical Study (5th ed., New Brunswick, NJ 2006)
La Roche-Aymon (1772–1849), Prussian-French general
Jean Lartéguy (1920–2011), French officer, writer

Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases (1766–1842), French atlas-maker and author of a book about Napoleon, Le Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène (The Memorial of Saint Helena)
Thomas Edward Lawrence, aka Lawrence of Arabia (1888–1935), British officer, archaeologist, intelligence agent, and writer
Guillaume Le Blond (1704–1781), mathematician and military theorist, also worked on fortifications
Frank Ledwidge, British lawyer, military historian, Royal Air Force College Cranwell
Robert E. Lee (1807–1870), US officer, Confederate general
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876–1956); Die Abwehr (1938)
Heinrich Antonowitsch Leer (1829–1904), Russian military scientist and general, editor of Encyclopedia of Military and Naval Sciences
Jean Frédéric Auguste Lemière de Corvey (1832–1771), officer, military writer; Des partisans et des corps irréguliers, ou manière d’employer avec avantage les troupes-légère … Paris 1828 (Digital copy)
Bernd Lemke (born 1965), military historian
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), Guerrilla warfare (1906)
Leo VI (866–912), Byzantine emperor; Summary Treatise on the Art of War
Robert R. Leonhard, military theorist; The Art of Maneuver: Maneuver Warfare Theory and Airland Battle
Hans Oskar von Lettow-Vorbeck (1839–1904), Leitfaden für den Unterricht in der Taktik an den Königlichen Kriegsschulen. Auf Befehl der General-Inspektion des Militär-Erziehungs- und Bildungs-Wesens ausgearbeitet von von Lettow-Vorbeck Guide for Tactical Instruction at Royal War Schools, Berlin, 1888)
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870–1964), general, military writer
Martin Lezius (1884–1941), German military writer, editor of Zeitschrift für Heereskunde
Lee Yu-Ri (1908–1955), Chinese military scientist and writer, editor of Zhongguo bingxue daxi 中國兵學大系
Basil H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970), British officer, military writer; proponent of the indirect approach; Strategy: The Indirect Approach
Peter Lieb (born 1974), military historian
Francis Lieber (1800–1872), Guerrilla parties: considered with reference to the laws and usages of war (1862)
Hermann von der Lieth-Thomsen (1867–1942), German general and air warfare expert
Johann Jakob Otto August Rühle von Lilienstern (1780–1847), Prussian lieutenant general and military writer
Otto Liman, officer, military writer
Lin Biao 林彪 (1907–1971), Chinese politician and strategist, strategy of encircling the cities of the world with the rural areas 农村包围城市 (by Mao Zedong); Long Live the Victory of People’s War! / Renmin zhanzheng shengli wansui! 人民战争胜利万岁 (Renmin Ribao, 3 September 1965)
Lin Xunnan 林薰南 (1890–1982), Chinese general and military writer, editor of Bingxue luncong (1943)
Julian Lindley-French (born 1958), British military historian
Justus Lipsius (1547–1606), Flemish scholar, military writings
Liu Lumin 刘鲁民 (born 1920), former deputy chief of logistics of the PLA, editor of Zhongguo bingshu jicheng 中国兵书集成
Henry Lloyd (d. 1783), Welsh officer and military writer, Military Memoirs
Robert Lo-Looz (1728–1786), French officer and tactician
Max Looff (1874–1954), German admiral and military writer
Franc̦ois de Saillans-Bertrand de Loque, Protestant minister; author of Deux Traitéz: l’un de la guerre, l’autre du duel (Iacob Ratoyre, Lyon 1589)
J. C. F. Lossau (1767–1848), Prussian general and war theorist; Der Krieg. Für wahre Krieger (1815)
Woldemar Hermann von Löwenstern (1776–1858), Baltic officer in Russian service
Louis Loyzeau de Grandmaison (1861–1915), French military theorist
Ludwig XI. (attributed), Le Rosier des guerres
Edward Luttwak (born 1942), theorist of the “dynamic paradox” of military strategy
Jay Luvaas (1927–2009), US military historian, American Civil War expert
Hubert Lyautey (1854–1934), Marshal of France, L’action coloniale (1900-1914): Madagascar – Sud-Oranais – Maroc (Digital copy – 1927)

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), political thinker, author of The Prince and The Art of War
Georg Maercker (1865–1924), German general, Freikorps leader, author; Unsere Schutztruppe in Ostafrika (Berlin 1893)
T. Miller Maguire (1849–1920), British instructor, military historian; Guerilla or Partisan Warfare (1904); A Summary of Modern Military History, with Comments on the Leading Operations (1887); Outlines of Military Geography (1899); Our art of war as made in Germany (1900); Notes on the Outlines of Strategy (1902); Strategy and Tactics in Mountain Ranges (1904); General Von Clausewitz On War (1909)
Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914), maritime strategy, The Influence of Sea Power upon History
Paul-Gédéon Joly de Maïzeroy (1719–1780), French officer and military theorist
G. B. Malleson: Ambushes and Surprises: Being a Description of Some of the Most Famous Instances of the Leading Into Ambush and the Surprise of Armies, from the Time of Hannibal to the Period of the Indian Mutiny (London, 1885) (Digital copy)
Jay Mallin (20th cent.), Cuba researcher; Strategy for conquest; Communist documents on guerrilla warfare (1971); Terror and Urban Guerrillas. A Study of Tactics and Documents (1971; 2nd ed. Coral Gables, FLA 1982)
Curt von Maltzahn (1849–1930), German vice admiral and naval historian

Mao Zedong: *Problems of Strategy in Guerrilla War against Japan* 抗日游击战争的战略问题 (1938)

Mao Zedong (1893–1976), Chinese revolutionary leader, guerrilla theorist; The Struggle in the Chingkang Mountains 井冈山的斗争 (1928), On Guerrilla Warfare 抗日游击战争的一般问题 (1937), Problems of Strategy in Guerrilla War against Japan 抗日游击战争的战略问题 (1938); On Protracted War (speeches, 1938); Selected Military Writings (Digitali copy)
Carlos Marighela (1911–1969), Brazilian urban guerrilla theorist; Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla
S. L. A. Marshall (1900–1977), US officer and military historian; Pork Chop Hill
Marshall, George C. (1880–1959), US general, military writer
A. R. Martin, Lieutenant-Colonel (1853–1926), British officer in the Indian Army; Mountain and Savage Warfare (Pioneer Press, Allahabad 1898)
Tyrone G. Martin (born 1930), American constitutional scholar
Karl Wilhelm Ritter von Martini (1821–1885), Austrian officer, military writer
Karl Marx (1818–1883), German philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary socialist, Friedrich Engels‘ lifelong friend
Christian von Massenbach (1758–1827), military theorist
Jason Matheny, president and CEO of RAND Corporation
Flavius Mauritius Tiberius (539–602), Byzantine emperor, author of Strategikon
Friedrich Wilhelm von Mauvillon (1774–1851), Prussian colonel
Jakob Mauvillon (1743–1794), political economist and historian
Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872), Italian nationalist and revolutionary who played a key role in the unification of Italy; Rules for the conduct of guerrilla bands (1832)
Nikolai von Medem Николай Васильевич Медем (1795–1870), German-Baltic Russian general and professor
Bernardino de Mendoza (1540–1604), Spanish diplomat, military theorist; Theórica y Práctica de Guerra (Madrid, 1595); Comentarios de lo sucedido en las Guerras de los Países Bajos (Rom 1592)
Emanuel von Merta (1836–1899), Austrian general, military theorist
H. F. Meijer (1832–1895), Dutch officer, military writer; Atjeh van 26 December 1875 tot 4 September 1876: De offensieve handelingen der gurilla. Uit officiëele bescheiden samengesteld (P. B. Nieuwenhuijs, Breda 1883)
Charles D. Melson, US military historian; chief historian of the Marine Corps; editor of Kleinkrieg. The German Experience with Guerrilla Warfare, from Clausewitz to Hitler (Haverton, PA 2016)
Lodovico Melzo (1567–1617), Italian officer in Spanish service; Regole militari del cavalier Melzo sopra il governo e servitio della cavalleria (Military rules on the government and special service of the cavalry, 1611)
Albert Merglen (1915–2012), French general, military writer
François-Jean de Mesnil-Durand (1736–1799), French tactician
Karl H. Metz (born 1946), German historian; Der kleine Krieg im großen Krieg: Die Guerilla. Über eine Form politischer Gewalt, ihre Entstehung und ihren systematischen Zusammenhang (MGM, 33, 1983); Geschichte der Gewalt: Krieg, Revolution, Terror (201)
Manus I. Midlarsky, On War: Political Violence in the International System (1975)
Billy Mitchell (1879–1936), US general; Winged Defense
Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke (1800–1891), Prussian field marshal, military writer
Blaise de Monluc (1502–1577), French colonel general and marshal, author of Commentaires
Arthur F. Montanaro, Lieut. Col. (1862–1914), British officer, military writer; Hints for a Bush Campaign (Sands Publishers, London 1901), German translation: Winke für Expeditionen im afrikanischen Busch. Mit Genehmigung des Verfassers aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Glauning, Hauptmann und Kompagniechef in der kaiserlichen Schutztruppe für Kamerun (Berlin 1905)
Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609–1680), Austrian general and military theorist; Aforismi dell’Arte Bellica
Robin Moore (1925–2008), The Hunt for Bin Laden: Task Force Dagger
Henri Mordacq (1868–1943), French general, military writer
Joseph Jean Marie Mordrelle (1863–1942), French officer, military writer
Patrick M. Morgan, Deterrence: A Conceptual Analysis (1977)
Moritz Graf von Sachsen (1696–1750), Marshal of France and military theorist; Mes Rêveries (My Reveries)
Moritz von Oranien (1567–1625), Prince of Orange
Oleg Borissowitsch Mosochin (born 1956), Russian military historian, professor
Johann Most (1846–1906), Revolutionäre Kriegswissenschaft: Eine Handbüchlein zur Anleitung Betreffend Gebrauches und Herstellung von Nitro-Glycerin, Dynamit, Schiessbaumwolle, Knallquecksilber, Bomben, Brandsätzen, Giften usw., usw. (The Science of Revolutionary Warfare: A Little Handbook of Instruction in the Use and Preparation of Nitroglycerine, Dynamite, Gun-Cotton, Fulminating Mercury, Bombs, Fuses, Poisons, Etc., Etc.) (New York: Internationaler Zeitung-Verein, c. 1883)
Karl von Müffling genannt Weiß (1775–1851), Prussian field marshal and military writer
James C. Mulvenon (born 1970), US political scientist, Chinese military expert
Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645), Japanese samurai, author of Gorin no Sho
Ivan Musicant (born 1943), naval historian; The Banana Wars. A History of the United States Military Intervention in Latin America from the Spanish-American War to the Invasion of Panama (New York 1990)

John Nagl (born 1966), US officer, military writer; Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam (Westport, CONN 2002)
William Napier (1785–1860), British soldier and military historian; History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814 (Carey and Hart, Philadelphia 1842)
Napoleon, Military Maxims

A. H. Nasution: *Fundamentals of Guerrilla Warfare* (*Pokok-pokok Gerilja*)

Abdul Haris Nasution (1918–2000), Indonesian general, military writer; Fundamentals of Guerrilla Warfare (Pokok-pokok Gerilya)
Álvaro de Navia-Osorio y Vigil, 3rd Marquis of Santa Cruz de Marcenado and Viscount of Puerto (1684–1732), Spanish diplomat, general, and author; Reflexiones militares (Military Reflections) (in seven volumes, Turin and Paris 1726-1730)
Sönke Neitzel (born 1968), German historian, military history
A. Neuberg (collective pseudonym, etc. of Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky, Ho Chi Minh und Hans Kippenberger): Der bewaffnete Aufstand. Versuch einer theoretischen Darstellung (Zürich 1928; English version: Armed insurrection (London 1970)
Virgil Ney (1905–1979), Col., US military historian; Notes on Guerrilla War: Principles and Practices (Washington, D.C. 1961)
Ernst Nigmann (1867–1923), officer, military writer; Felddienstübungen für farbige (ostafrikanische) Truppen (Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung, Daressalam 1910); Geschichte der Kaiserlichen Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika (Berlin 1911)
Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972), Ghanaian politician; Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare (Digital copy)
Wilhelm du Nord (1836–1909), Austrian officer and military writer
Lon O. Nordeen, Air Warfare in the Missile Age
Nugroho Notosusanto (1930–1985), Indonesian military historian
Walter Nuhn (born 1928); German author of works about German colonial history; Sturm über Südwest (Koblenz 1989); Flammen über Deutsch-Ostafrika. Der Maji-Maji-Aufstand 1905/06 (Bonn 1998); Feind überall. Guerillakrieg in Südwest. Der Große Nama-Aufstand 1904-1908 (Bonn 2000); Kamerun unter dem Kaiseradler. Geschichte der Erwerbung und Erschließung des ehemaligen deutschen Schutzgebietes Kamerun (Köln 2000); Kolonialpolitik und Marine. Die Rolle der Kaiserlichen Marine bei der Gründung und Sicherung des deutschen Kolonialreiches 1884-1914 (Bonn 2002); Auf verlorenem Posten – Deutsch-Südwestafrika im Ersten Weltkrieg (Bonn 2006)
Roger H. Nye (1924–1996), US soldier and military writer

Adam Ludwig Baron von Ochs (1759–1823), Hessian general, Betrachtungen über die neuere Kriegskunst über ihre Fortschritte und Veränderungen: und über die wahrscheinlichen Folgen welche für die Zukunft daraus entstehen werden (short: Considerations on Modern Warfare, Kassel 1817)
Raymond T. Odierno (1954–2021), US general, involved in the development of the U.S. Army Field Manual 3-34 (FM 3-34), describing tactics for counterinsurgency operations, used by the US Army in Afghanistan from 2006 onwards
Nikolai Vasilyevich Ogarkov (1917–1994), Marshal of the Soviet Union; Always Ready to Defend the Fatherland
Onasander (1st century), Greek military writer; Strategikos
Humberto Ortega (1947–2024), Nicaraguan general, military writer; Sobre la insurrección (Havanna 1981)
Franklin Mark Osanka (1936–2016), US officer, military writer
Robert Endicott Osgood (1921–1986), The Limited War
Albrecht Friedrich Rudolf, Archduke of Austria (1817–1895), Austrian field marshal; Über die Verantwortlichkeit im Krieg (On Responsibility in War)
Adolf Ott (1842–1918), German soldier and writer

Yuri Aleksandrovich Panteleyev (1901–1983), Soviet admiral; My Life for the Fleet
Peter Paret (1924–2020), Understanding War: Essays on Clausewitz and the History of Military Power
Antoine de Pas, Marquis de Feuquières (1648–1711), French general; Mémoires sur la guerre
Peng Guangqian 彭光谦 (born 1943), Chinese military strategist
Lothar Persius (1864–1944), German naval officer and military author
David Petraeus (born 1952), US general, military writer; initiator of FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency
John Philippart (c. 1784–1875), British military writer
Ardant du Picq (1821–1870), French colonel and military theorist; Études sur le Combat
Thomas D. Pilcher (1858–1928), British officer, military writer; Some lessons from the Boer War 1899-1902 (London 1905)

Józef Piłsudski (1867–1935), Polish statesman, Chief of State (1918–1922) and first Marshal of Poland (from 1920); Writings – Speeches – Orders of Józef Piłsudski (the first eleven-volume collection of his written legacy, published in 1930–1936 by the Józef Piłsudski Institute for Research in Modern History of Poland)
John Pimlott (1948–1997), historian, was the Head of the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, author of books on 20th century military history
Johannes Pohler (1851–?), German historian; Bibliotheca historico-militaris
Markus Pöhlmann (born 1967), military historian
Polyaenus (2nd century), author of Strategemata
Polybius (c. 200–c. 118 BC), Greek historian
Karl Eduard Pönitz (1795–1858), Saxon officer and military writer; Militärische Briefe eines Verstorbenen an seine noch lebenden Freunde, historischen, wissenschaftlichen, kritischen und humoristischen Inhalts. Zur unterhaltenden Belehrung für Eingeweihte u. Laien im Kriegswesen. (short: Military Letters of a Deceased, Adorf Verlagsbureau, 1841)
Douglas Porch (born 1944), US military historian; The French Foreign Legion: A Complete History (Macmillan, London 1991)
Adalbert of Prussia (1811–1873), German admiral
Ruslan Pukhov (born 1973), Russian defense analyst; The Tanks of August; Brothers Armed
Peter Purzelbaum (1884–1957), officer and military writer
Ferdinand von Prondzynski (1804–1871), Prussian general; Theorie des Krieges (Theory of War)
Jacques François de Chastenet de Puységur (1656–1743), Marshal of France; Art de la Guerre

Harold E. Raugh (born 1956), US military writer
Oskar Regele (1890–1969), Austrian officer and military historian
Frank Reichherzer (born 1977), military historian
Markus Reisner (born 1978), Austrian historian and military expert
Hellmuth Rentsch, officer, military writer; Partisanenkampf: Erfahrungen und Lehren
Martin Rink (born 1966), German military historian; Vom “Partheygänger” zum Partisanen: die Konzeption des kleinen Krieges in Preußen 1740-1813 (Diss. 1998; content)
Joseph Rogniat (fr) (1776-1840 ), Vicomte, French general; Considérations sur l’art de la guerre (1816), German translation: Betrachtungen über die Kriegskunst by J. A. Theobald (Cotta, Stuttgart 1823)
Henri de Rohan (1579–1638), Huguenot leader; Le parfait Capitaine (1631)
Heinrich Rohne (1842–1937), Prussian lieutenant general and military writer
Erwin Rommel (1891–1944), German field marshal; Infanterie greift an (1937)
Arthur Rosenberg (1889–1943), historian; A History of Bolshevism
Friedrich Ruge (1894–1985), German vice admiral and military writer
Wilhelm Rüstow (1821–1878), military writer and historian; Die Lehre vom kleinen Kriege (Zürich, 1864)
Cornelius Ryan (1920–1974), The Longest Day; A Bridge Too Far

Walerij Saluschnyj (born 1973), Ukrainian general; Modern positional warfare and how to win in it (2023)

Ronald Schaffer, US military historian; introduction to Small Wars Manual (United States Marine Corps, 1940)
Emil Schalk, Summary of the Art of War (1862)
Gerhard David von Scharnhorst (1755–1813), German field marshal and military writer
Johann Baptist Schels (1780–1847 ), Austrian officer; Leichte Truppen; kleiner Krieg (Wien, 1813–14)
Justus Scheibert (1831–1903), engineering officer
Sigismund von Schlichting (1829–1909), infantry theorist
Alfred Graf von Schlieffen (1833–1913), designer of the Schlieffen Plan
Erwin A. Schmidl (born 1956), Austrian officer, military historian
Helmut Schmidt (1918–2015), German politician, defense minister and chancellor; strategic writings
Hugo Schmidt von Boneti (1866–1918), general major and military writer
Paul von Schmidt (1837–1905), Prussian general major and military writer
Jürgen W. Schmidt (born 1958), military historian
Rochus Schmidt (1860–1938), officer, military writer; Geschichte des Araberaufstandes in Ost-Afrika. Seine Entstehung, seine Niederwerfung und seine Folgen (Berlin 1892)
Louis Schneider (1805–1878), actor, journalist, military writer
Karl Ritter von Schönhals (1788–1857), Austrian field marshal, military writer
Wilhelm von Schramm (1898–1983), German officer, journalist, military writer
Hagen Schulze (1943–2014), German historian; Freikorps und Republik 1918-1920 (Boppard 1968)
Kurd Schwabe (1866–1920), German officer, military writer; Dienst und Kriegführung in den Kolonien und auf überseeischen Expeditionen. Dargestellt und an Beispielen aus der kolonialen Kriegsgeschichte erläutert (Berlin 1903)
Max Schwarte (1860–1945), general, military writer
von Schweinitz, officer, military writer
Lazarus von Schwendi (1522–1583), diplomat and general; military writer
Bernhard Schwertfeger (1868–1953), colonel and military writer
Mychajlo Schyrochow (born 1974), Ukrainian historian and journalist
Ludwig von Seddeler (1791–1852), Austrian-Russian lieutenant general, military historian
Philippe-Paul de Ségur (1780–1873), French officer and military writer
Alexander De Seversky (1894–1974), Entscheidung durch Luftmacht (Victory through Air Power)
Sarah Sewall (born 1961), US security expert, military writer (new introduction to the FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency)
L. J. Shadwell, Major; North-West Frontier Warfare. Being an Appendix to Sherston‘s “Tactics as Applied to Schemes” (Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta, 1902)
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Boris Shaposhnikov (1882–1945), Marshal of the Soviet Union; The Brain of the Army
Richard Simpkin (1921–1986), military theorist
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Pavel Smirnov (1888–1959), Soviet general major; Breaking Fortified Lines (1941)
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Friedrich von Smitt (1787–1865), Russian historian of German origin
Andrei Snesarev (1865–1937), Russian-Soviet military theorist
Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky (1897–1968), Marshal of the Soviet Union; Military Strategy
Siegfried Sorge (1898–1989), German rear admiral and military writer
Lennart Souchon (born 1942), German strategist and scholar of political philosophy and military theory; (ed.) Der Einsatz von Seestreitkräften im Dienst der auswärtigen Politik (Herford 1983)
Rolf Steinhaus (1916–2004), German vice admiral and military writer
Karol Bogumił Stolzman (1793–1854); Partyzantka czyli Wojna dla ludów powstających najwłaściwsza (Partisan Warfare, that is, the war most suitable for emerging peoples) (Paryż; Lipsk; Poitiers 1844)
Hew Strachan (born 1949), military historian
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Sun Tzu (c. 544–496 BC), Chinese general; The Art of War
Matthew Sutcliffe (1550?–1629), English clergyman, academic and lawyer; Practice, Proceedings and Lawes of Armes (1593)
Alexander Suvorov (1730–1800), Russian generalissimo; The Art of Victory Наука побеждать (1795)
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Thucydides (c. 454–c. 399/396 BC), Ancient Greek author of History of the Peloponnesian War
Alfred von Tirpitz (1849–1930), German Grand Admiral and naval strategist
Eduard Ivanovich von Totleben (1818–1884), German-Baltic Russian general; Defense of Sevastopol (2 vols., 1863–1878)
Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975), War and Civilization: A Study of History (1957)
Hans Karl Heinrich von Trautzschen (1730–1812), poet and military writer; Military and Literary Letters of Mr. von T. (1769)
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Georg Trierenberg (20th century), German officer, military writer; Togo, die Aufrichtung der deutschen Schutzherrschaft und die Erschliessung des Landes (Mittler, Berlin 1914)
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Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659–1719), author of Hagakure
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Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893–1937), Marshal of the Soviet Union; military theorist
Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne (1611–1675), French general and Marshal of France
Lancelot Turpin de Crissé (1716–1793), French military writer; Essai sur l’art de la guerre (1754)
Nick Turse (born 1975), US journalist and historian; Tomorrow’s Battlefield

Georg Wilhelm von Valentini (1775–1834); Die Lehre vom Krieg (1820)
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Bernardo de Vargas Machuca (1557–1622), Spanish military theorist; Milicia y descripción de las Indias (1599)
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Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Roman military writer; Epitoma rei militaris
Julius von Verdy du Vernois (1832–1910), Prussian infantry general and military theorist
Ivan Vinarov (1896–1969), Fighter on the Silent Front
David Vine (born 1974), US anthropologist and author on overseas US military presence, Lily-Pad Strategy
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John D. Waghelstein (1937–2025), US officer, military writer; El Salvador: Observations and Experiences in Counterinsurgency: an Individual Study Project (Army War College, 1985)
Gerhard Wagner (1898–1987), German admiral and military theorist
Johann Jacobi von Wallhausen (1580–1627), first German military writer
Timothy A. Walton, US political scientist; Three Warfares
Wang Xiangsui (born 1954), Chinese author; Unrestricted Warfare (with Qiao Liang)
Nikolai Efimovich Varfolomeev (1890–1939), Soviet military commander and theorist
Edward Wegener (1904–1981), German and NATO admiral, military theorist
Wolfgang Wegener (1875–1956), German vice admiral and naval strategist
Wei Liao 尉缭 (Warring States period), Chinese military theorist; Wei Liaozi
Dieter Wellershoff (1933–2005), German admiral, Inspector General of the Bundeswehr
Harald Welzer (born 1958), German social psychologist; Climate Wars: What People Will Be Killed For in the 21st Century (Polity Press 2012)
Wlodimir Stanislaus Ritter von Wilczynski (19th century), Theorie des grossen Krieges: mit Hilfe des kleinen oder Partisanen-Krieges (Vienna 1869)
Reinhold von Werner (1825–1909), German vice admiral and military writer
Georg Cardinal von Widdern (1841–1920), German military writer; Der Kleine Krieg und Der Etappendienst (2nd ed., Eisenschmidt, Berlin 1899)
Gerhard Wiechmann (born 1958), German historian; Guerilla und small wars
Johannes Wieland (1791–1832), Swiss officer and military writer
Karl Wilhelm von Willisen (1790–1879), Prussian general and military writer; Theorie des großen Krieges angewendet auf den russisch-polnischen Feldzug von 1831 (Theory of the Great War Applied to the Russo-Polish Campaign of 1831)
Ulrich Wille (1848–1925), Swiss general and military theorist
William of Tyre (12th century), Chronica
William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe (1724–1777), military theorist, Scharnhorst‘s mentor
Hermann von Wissmann (1853–1904), German explorer and administrator in Africa; Afrika. Schilderungen und Rathschläge zur Vorbereitung für den Aufenthalt und Dienst in den Deutschen Schutzgebieten (Africa. Accounts and Advice for the Preparation for Residence and Service in the German Protectorates, Berlin 1894)
Quincy Wright (1890–1970), A Study of War (1965)
M. le Bon de Wüst; L’Art militaire du partisan (1768)
Joseph Caldwell Wylie (1911–1993), US naval officer; Military Strategy: A General Theory of Power Control (1967)

Mykhailo Zabrodskyi (born 1973), Russian-trained Ukrainian military writer
Friedrich Wilhelm von Zanthier (1741–1781), officer and military theorist; Versuch über die Märsche der Armeen (1778)
Zhuge Liang (181–234), strategist of the Three Kingdoms; Collected Works (Zhuge Liang ji 諸葛亮集)
Nikolaus Zrinski (1620–1664), Ban of Croatia, imperial general, poet, and military writer
Sherifa Zuhur (born 1953), US academic and security analyst on the Middle East
Beat Fidel Zurlauben (1720–1799), Swiss Guard general; Histoire militaire des Suisses au Service de la France (eight volumes, 1751-1753, with four additional volumes Code militaire des Suisses, 1758-1764)

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