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* [[Wilhelm von Schramm]] (1898–1983), German officer, journalist, 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)

* [[Hagen Schulze]] (1943–2014), German historian; ”Freikorps und Republik 1918-1920” (Boppard 1968)

* [[Kurd Schwabe]] <small>[[Kurd Schwabe|(de)]]</small> (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)

* [[Kurd Schwabe]] <small>[[Kurd Schwabe|(de)]]</small> (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]] <small>[[Max Schwarte|(de)]]</small> (1860–1945), general, military writer

* [[Max Schwarte]] <small>[[Max Schwarte|(de)]]</small> (1860–1945), general, military writer

* [[Schweinitz (Prussian officer)|von Schweinitz]], officer, military writer

* [[Schweinitz (Prussian officer)|von Schweinitz]], officer, military writer

* [[Lazarus von Schwendi]] (1522–1583), diplomat and general; military writer

* [[Lazarus von Schwendi]] (1522–1583), diplomat and general; military writer


Revision as of 01:13, 21 September 2025

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.

Introduction

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.

Sunzi bingfa 孫子兵法
Suvorov: The Art of Victory Наука побеждать (2nd edition, 1809)
FM 34-45: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures Electronic Attack (U.S. Army Field Manual)

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  • 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
Carl von Clausewitz: Vom Kriege (Berlin 1832)

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  • 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: Vers l’armée de métier (1934)
Che Guevara: Guerrilla Warfare (La Guerra de Guerrillas, edition of 1961)

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  • 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
  • Alexander Vladimirovich Heroys (ru) (1870–1944); Russian military, Lieutenant General (1917); (with Léon Thévenin) L’Armée rouge et la guerre sociale (Paris 1931)
  • 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
  • Hans H. Hildebrand (de) (1919–2011), German naval officer and historian (with Albert Röhr and Hans-Otto Steinmetz): Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe: Biographien: ein Spiegel der Marinegeschichte von 1815 bis zur Gegenwart (seven vols., in several editions since 1979)
  • Franz Hinterstoisser (1863–1933), Austrian aeronaut and military writer
  • Alexander Ivanovich Hippius (1855 – around 1918), officer of the Imperial Russian Army, Military Governor of the Fergana Region (1911–1916); military writer; A Century of the Ministry of War, 1802–1902. General Staff. Historical Overview. Troop Training Столетие военного министерства. 1802—1902. Главный штаб. Исторический очерк. Образование (обучение) войск (St. Petersburg, 1903); On the Causes of Our War with Japan О причинах нашей войны с Японией (St. Petersburg 1905)
  • 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
  • Richard Holmes (1946–2011), British military historian; Editor-in-Chief (with others) of the Oxford Companion to Military History
  • 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.)

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  • 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)
  • Charles-André Julien (1891–1991), French historian who opposed French colonialism; Les techniciens de la colonisation: XIXe-XXe siècles
  • 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

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Arthashastra (16th century manuscript in Grantha script kept at the Oriental Research Institute, Mysore)

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St Helena, 1816: Napoleon Dictating to Count Las Cases the Account of His Campaigns (1892), by the artist William Quiller Orchardson (1832–1910)

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The Arte of Warre (Machiavelli): frontispiece of the English edition of Peter Withorne (London 1573)
Mao Zedong: Problems of Strategy in Guerrilla War against Japan 抗日游击战争的战略问题 (1938)

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  • 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)
  • Anna Nadibaidze, expert in autonomous drones (contribution to Handbook of Drone Warfare, 2024)
  • Napoleon, Military Maxims
A. H. Nasution: Fundamentals of Guerrilla Warfare (Pokok-pokok Gerilja)

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  • 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

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Józef Piłsudski: Psychologia więźnia (1931)

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  • Antonio Salinas, U.S. Army officer, military writer; Siren’s Song: The Allure of War; Boot Camp: The Making of a United States Marine; Leaving War: From Afghanistan’s Pech Valley To Hadrian’s Wall – A Veteran’s Search For Peace
  • Walerij Saluschnyj (born 1973), Ukrainian general; Modern positional warfare and how to win in it (2023)
Diego de Salazar: Tratado de re militari
Small Wars Manual (United States Marine Corps 1940)
Lieutenant “Backsight Forethought”: The Defence of Duffer’s Drift (ed. 1907)

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10th-century minuscule manuscript of ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian War

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  • Kurt Wilhelm Uebe, officer, military writer
  • Harold H. Utley, major; An Introduction to the Tactics and Technique of Small Wars (Marine Corps Gazette, 1931/1933)
  • Robert M. Utley (1929–2022), American author and historian, authority on the history of the American West; Frontier Regulars. The United States Army and the Indian 1866-1891 (Lincoln, NE/London 1973)
  • Mesut Uyar (born 1969), Turkish political scientist and historian; A Military History of the Ottomans: From Osman to Atatürk (with Edward J. Erickson)

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Reinhold Begas: Military Science, 1887, marble (commissioned work for the Hall of Fame in Berlin)

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