List of military theorists and military writers
This is a list of military theorists and military writers . The list is broad. It provides an alphabetical overview of major authors in the field of military science and strategy, including military thinkers, military theorists, military authors, military strategists, military historians, memorabilia writers, and others. The list does not claim to be up-to-date or complete. Various biographical details, important writings etc. are given. a.
Famous works are for example The Art of War by Sunzi (Sun Wu), Vom Kriege by Carl von Clausewitz or The Partisan War ( La guerra de guerrillas ) by Ernesto Che Guevara .
Overview
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- Youssef H. Aboul-Enein (1970-), American military and military writer: Islamic Rulings on Warfare (with Sherifa Zuhur )
- Aelianus Tacticus (1st - 2nd century), Greek military writer, Tactica
- Agathias (6th century), Eastern Roman historian, wrote about Justinian's wars
- Aineas the tactician (Aeneas Tacticus, first half of the 4th century BC), Greek strategist and military writer
- Ammianus Marcellinus (4th century), Roman historian
- Gerhard von Amyntor (1831–1910) (Dagobert von Gerhardt), military and writer; The Antagonism of France and England from the Political-Military Point of View and the Probability of a French Troop Landing on the South Coast of England (1860)
- Appian , Roman historian, wrote about the Roman civil wars
- Arkolay (di Johann Woldemar Streubel) (1827–1873 Insane Asylum Illenau ), Saxon military writer
- Arrian (around 85/90 – after 145/146), Alexanderzug over the campaigns of Alexander the great
- Mariano d'Ayala (1808–1877), Italian military, politician and writer
- Hyacinthe Aube (1826–1890), French admiral and minister of the navy, co-founder of the Jeune École
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- Bardet de Villeneuve (18th century), military writer and theorist
- Étienne Alexandre Bardin (1774–1841), French general, author of a Manuel d'infanterie ( digitized 4th A., Paris 1813) and the broad Dictionnaire de l'armée de terre, or Recherches historiques sur l'art et les usages militaires des anciens et des modern. 17 vols., Paris: J. Corréard, 1841–1851 (online excerpts: " Auteur militaire " & " Bibliothèque militaire ")
- Muhammad Ahmad Bashmil : The Great Battle of Badr
- 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 ), a manual on guerrilla warfare
- André Beaufre (1902–1975): An Introduction to Strategy ; Strategy of deterrence ; Strategy of Action
- Heinrich Beitzke (1798–1867), military writer
- 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 general of the cavalry and military historian; Germany and the next war
- Eugen Bircher (1882–1956), Swiss officer, military writer and politician
- Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Bismarck (1783–1860), Württemberg lieutenant general, diplomat, military writer, entrusted with the reorganization of the mounted armed forces after Wilhelm I took office, since 1820 appointed lifelong member of the Chamber of Jurors of the Württemberg state parliament
- Geoffrey Blainey (* 1930): The Causes of War (1973)
- Daniel P. Bolger (* 1957), American military and military historian
- Honorat Bovet (14th century) (attributed to): L'Arbre des batailles digitalisat
- John Boyd (1927–1997), military strategist, inventor of the OODA loop or decision cycle
- Gary Brecher (* 1955), author of War Nerd (Warriors of War)
- Bernard Brodie (1910-1978): War and Politics (1973); Strategy in the missile age (1959).
- 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
- Valentin Busuioc (* 1965), Romanian poet and playwright
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- Gaius Iulius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC), author of the Gallic War ( De bello Gallico ) and Alexandrian War
- Henri-Pierre Cathala , counterintelligence worker , author of Le temps de la désinformation ( The Age of Disinformation )
- JBA Charras (1810–1865), lieutenant colonel, French officer and military writer, lived in Brussels since 1851, ostracized after the coup , died in Basel
- Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), Prussian general and military theorist; from the war
- Julian Corbett (1854-1922), British naval historian and strategist; Some principles in naval strategy (1911)
- Antonio Cornazzano (1429–1484), Cornazano de re militari ( digitized version )
- Martin van Creveld (* 1946), theoretician of a new military science ( guerrilla and terrorism )
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- Gustav Däniker (1896–1947), Swiss general staff officer and military writer
- Gustav Däniker jun. (1928–2000), Swiss divisional officer and military journalist
- Hans Delbrück (1848–1929), German historian and politician; History of the art of war in the context of political history
- Isidor Didion (1798–1878), French general, author of classical writings on ballistics
- Wilhelm Dilich (1571–1650), also a military writer
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus (died after 7 BC), author of the Roman Antiquities
- Maximilian von Ditfurth (1806–1861), Elector of Hesse officer and military historian
- Chris Donnelly (* 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 theoretician of aerial warfare ; Treatise on air domination (“Il Dominio dell'Aria”).
- Mikhail Dragomirov (1830–1905), the most famous military theorist in Russia
- Guillaume Henri Dufour (1787–1875), General: Cours de Tactique (Paris, 1851)
- Pierre Dupont de l'Étang (1765–1840), French general at the time of the French Revolution , under Napoleon and the restored royalty , L'Art de la guerre, poème en dix chants. Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1838 digitized
- Louis Durat-Lasalle (capitaine (1813–1848), dates unknown) French military writer, author of Code de l'Officier
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- Edward Mead Earle (1894–1954): The Makers of Modern Strategy (1952) digitized
- Henry E. Eccles (1898–1986): Military Concepts and Philosophy (1965)
- Waldemar Erfurth (1879–1971), German military historian and strategist and officer in three German armies; The Surprise in War (1938)
- Ludwig von Eimannsberger (1878–1945), Austrian general; The Chariot War (Munich 1934)
- Ernst von Eisenhart-Rothe (1862–1947), German infantry general in World War I, chief quartermaster, 1917–1918 general manager of the field army, lieutenant general, military writer
- Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (1533–1594), author of La Araucana
- Eutropius (4th century), Roman historian, Breviarium ab urbe condita
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- Georg Rudolph Fäsch (1710–1787), Saxon military and war historian
- Erich von Falkenhayn (1861–1922), General
- 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
- Flavius Vegetius Renatus , 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 a. Military theorist, wrote a. a. Commentaires sur l'Histoire de Polybe (Amsterdam 1735, 7 vols.)
- Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), also a military writer
- Hans Frank (1939–2019), German Vice Admiral, President of the Federal Academy for Security Policy , military author
- Hugo von Freytag-Loringhoven (1855–1924), Prussian infantry general and military writer; The power of personality in war. Studies according to Clausewitz (1905)
- Friedrich II of Prussia (1712–1786), military theorist
- Leonhart Fronsperger (1520–1575): From Imperial war rights. The most important German military writer of the 16th century treats the warfare of his time in his writings.
- Sextus Iulius Frontinus (≈35–103), author of strategemata
- JFC Fuller (1878–1966), theorist of tank warfare
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- Joseph Gallieni (1849–1916), French general, governor of Madagascar and minister of war: La pacification de Madagascar
- Karl Galster (1851–1931), German vice admiral, critic of the Tirpitz fleet
- Azar Gat (* 1959), Israeli military historian and theorist
- Robert Ginsberg : The Critique of War: Contemporary Philosophical Explorations (1969), ed.
- Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843–1916), 19th century general and theoretician of the art of war
- Sergei Georgijewitsch Gorschkow (1910–1988), Soviet naval admiral and naval strategist
- Georg Dietrich von der Groeben (1725–1794), Prussian lieutenant general and military writer, war library or collected articles on war science and the continuation of the New War Library
- Erich Gröner (1901–1965), German naval author, author of several standard works on German warships since 1815
- Otto Groos (1882–1970), German admiral, author and lecturer on topics related to naval warfare
- Heinz Guderian (1888–1954), German general, executor of the Blitzkrieg , author of Achtung - Panzer!
- Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967), Argentine revolutionary, whose diary describes the fighting in Bolivia ( Bolivian Diary )
- Jacques Antoine Hippolyte Guibert (1743–1790), general and military writer
- Karl Theophil Guichard (1724–1775), Prussian officer and military writer, confidante of Frederick the Great
- Guo Rugui 郭 汝 瑰 (1907–1997): Chinese Military History 中国 军事 史 , 1980s (Ed.)
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- Robert Habermaas (Asperg-Hohenasperg 1856 - Stuttgart 1921), major general and military writer
- Morton Halperin (* 1938): Contemporary Military Strategy (1967)
- Muhammad Hamidullah (1908-2002): The Battlefields of Prophet Muhammad . Woking , England, 1953.
- Herodian (died around 250), author of the history of the empire after Marcus Aurelius
- Herodotus (died around 430/420 BC), author of the histories
- Hellmuth Heye (1895–1970), German vice admiral, commissioner for the armed forces of the German Bundestag and military writing plate
- Franz Hinterstoisser (1863–1933), Austrian aeronaut and military writer
- Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1827–1892), prince, general of the artillery and military writer, Pour le Mérite; 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
- Abel Hugo (1798–1855)
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- Friedrich Immanuel (1857–1939), German colonel, military writer, Reichskriegerbund Kyffhäuser
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- Max Jähns (1837–1900), Prussian officer and military writer.
- Rudolf August von Janson (1844–1917), Prussian officer, infantry general and military writer
- Johann the Middle of Nassau-Siegen (1561–1623), military career, defense book for the county of Nassau
- Michael Johns (* 1964), writer, foreign policy and security expert
- Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779–1869), baron, Swiss officer and military theorist, has written books on the Napoleonic Wars , including Précis de l'Art de la Guerre ( abstract of the art of war ) and Traité des grandes opérations militaires ( treatise on great military Operations )
- Justinus (Justin), Roman historian
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- Archduke Karl (1771–1847), Austrian general and author of military writings
- Nikolai Wassiljewitsch von Kaulbars , baron (1842–1905), general in the Russian army and military writer
- Franz Georg Friedrich von Kausler (1794–1848): Napoleon's principles, views and statements on the art of war, war history and warfare. Illustrated from his works and correspondence. Lpz., Baumgärtner 1827. As a military writer, influenced the training of officers of his time. Appointed a member of the Royal Swedish Military Academy in Stockholm .
- Hugo Kerchnawe (1872–1949), Austrian general and military writer
- John Keegan (1934–2012), military historian
- Henry Kissinger (* 1923), United States Secretary of State , nuclear war theorist; Necessity for choice
- Konrad Kyeser (1366 – after 1405), Bellifortis
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- Lacuée, Comte de Cessac, Jean-Gérard (1753–1841), French general, minister of war and governor of the École polytechnique
- Landry (14th century): Le chevalier de La Tour et le Guidon des guerres
- La Roche-Aymon (1772–1849), Franco-Prussian general
- Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888–1935), British officer, archaeologist, secret agent and writer
- Guillaume Le Blond (1704–1781), mathematician and military theorist, also dealt with fortress construction.
- Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876–1956), The Defense (1938)
- Leo VI (866-912), Byzantine emperor ; Summarizing discussion of the art of war
- Robert Leonhard , military theorist; The Art of Maneuver: Maneuver Warfare Theory and Airland Battle
- Hans Oskar von Lettow-Vorbeck (1839–1904): Guide for teaching tactics at the royal war schools. Prepared by von Lettow-Vorbeck on the orders of the General Inspection of Military Education and Training . (Berlin, 1888)
- Martin Lezius (also Letzius, 1884–1941), German military writer, editor of the magazine for Heereskunde of the German Society for Heereskunde
- BH Liddell Hart (1895–1970), advocate of the doctrine of the indirect approach , influenced many military thinkers in the 20th century; Strategy: The Indirect Approach
- Hermann von der Lieth-Thomsen (1867–1942), German general and air war expert
- Johann Jakob Otto August Rühle von Lilienstern (1780–1847), Prussian lieutenant general and military writer
- Justus Lipsius (1547–1606), Flemish scholar, writings on the military
- Henry Lloyd (died 1783) from Wales, officer (in various armies) and military writer, Military Memoirs (German treatise on the general principles of the art of war )
- Robert Lo-Looz (1728–1786), actually Robert Lo de Radelet , French military and tactician from the Order of Louis
- Max Looff (1874–1954), German naval officer, most recently vice admiral, and military writer, commander of the German naval troops in East Africa
- JCF Lossau (1767–1848), Prussian general, war theorist and forerunner of Clausewitz ; The war. For true warriors (1815)
- Louis XI. (attributed to), Le Rosier des guerres
- Edward Luttwak (* 1942), theoretical discoverer of the "dynamic paradox" of military strategy
- Jay Luvaas (1927–2009), American military historian and expert on the American Civil War and the history of military theory.
- Hubert Lyautey (1854–1934), Marshal of France: L'action coloniale
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- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), political thinker, author of The Prince ( Il Principe ) and The Art of War (Dell'arte della Guerra)
- Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914), maritime strategy ( The Influence of Sea Power upon History , German: The influence of sea power on history )
- Paul-Gédéon Joly de Maïzeroy (1719–1780), French officer and military theorist
- Curt von Maltzahn (1849–1930), German vice admiral, naval war strategist and military historian
- Mao Zedong (Mao Tsetung) (1893–1976), leader of the Chinese communists, guerrilla theorist; Selected military writings. Foreign Language Literature Publishing House , Beijing, 1969
- Carlos Marighela (1911–1969), Brazilian specialist in " urban guerrilla ", wrote a mini manual for the urban guerrilla ( Minimanual do Guerrilheiro Urbano )
- Tyrone G. Martin (* 1930), American constitutional expert
- Karl Wilhelm Ritter von Martini (1821–1885), Austrian officer, journalist, military writer
- Christian von Massenbach (1758–1827), military theorist
- Flavius Mauritius Tiberius (539–602), Byzantine emperor, author of the classic military manual Strategikon
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Mauvillon (1774-1851), Prussian colonel
- Jakob Mauvillon (1743–1794), constitutional lawyer, oenom and historian
- Emanuel Merta (1836–1899), Austrian general, military theorist
- François-Jean de Mesnil-Durand (1736–1799), French tactician
- Manus I. Midlarsky : On War: Political Violence in the International System (1975)
- William Lendrum "Billy" Mitchell (1879–1936), American general; Winged Defense (1925)
- Modestus : De vocabulis rei militaris
- Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke (1800-1891), Prussian Field Marshal General. Since 1818 as an officer in the Danish service in Rendsburg, 1823 then in the Prussian service, 1833 in the General Staff, 1836–1839 as a military advisor in the Turkish army. Eminent strategist and recognized military writer.
- Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609–1680), important general and military theorist, who, along with Prince Eugene and Archduke Karl, is considered one of the most important commanders in Austria, creator of the first standing army in Austria; Aforismi dell'Arte Bellica
- Blaise de Montesquiou-Lasseran-Massencôme , seigneur de Monluc (1502–1577), French historian, Colonel General of the Infantry and Marshal of France: Commentaires
- Robin Moore (1925-2008), The Hunt for Bin Laden: Task Force Dagger
- Patrick M. Morgan : Deterrence: A Conceptual Analysis (1977)
- Moritz Graf von Sachsen (1696–1750), Marshal of France, the illegitimate son of Augustus the Strong and his mistress Maria Aurora Countess von Königsmarck rose in French service to the "Maréchal de Saxe" ("Marshal of Saxony") and became a successful one General and important military theorist.
- Moritz of Orange (1567–1625)
- Philipp Friedrich Carl Ferdinand Freiherr von Müffling (called Weiß, 1775–1851), Prussian field marshal and military writer
- Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645), Japanese feudal samurai (15th century), author of Gorin no Sho ( The Book of Five Rings )
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- Napoleon ( military maxims )
- Abdul Haris Nasution (1918–2000): The guerrilla war. Basics of guerrilla warfare from the perspective of the Indonesian defense system in the past and future
- Wilhelm du Nord (1836–1909), Austrian officer and military writer
- Lon O. Nordeen : Air warfare in the missile age (Smithsonian Books, Washington, DC 2010)
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- Adam Ludwig Baron von Ochs (1759–1823), Major General of the Electorate of Hesse, military writer, reflections on the modern art of war, its progress and changes: and the likely consequences that will arise from it for the future (Kassel 1817)
- Onasandros / Onasander (1st century), Greek military writer, Strategikos
- Robert Endicott Osgood (1921–1986): The Limited War (1957)
- Albrecht Friedrich Rudolf, Archduke of Austria (1817–1895), Austrian field marshal, On responsibility in war
- Adolf Ott (pseudonym: Flodatto) (1842–1918), German soldier and writer
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- Yuri Alexandrowitsch Panteleev (1901–1983), Soviet Admiral, My Life for the Fleet (1982)
- Antoine de Pas , Marquis de Feuquières (1648–1711), French military leader: Mémoires sur la guerre
- Lothar Persius (1864–1944), German naval officer and military author
- John Philippart (c. 1784–1875), British military writer
- Ardant du Picq (1821–1870), French colonel and military theorist, Études sur le Combat digitized (English)
- Polyainos (Polyaenus) (2nd century): Strategemata
- Polybios (approx. 200 - approx. 118 BC), Greek historian from the epoch of Hellenism
- Karl Eduard Pönitz (1795–1858), Saxon military and military writer. Military letters from a deceased to his friends who are still alive, historical, scientific, critical and humorous content. For entertaining instruction for initiated u. Laymen in warfare. Adorf Publishing Bureau, 1841
- Adalbert von Prussia (1811–1873), German admiral and naval advisor
- Peter Purzelbaum (own. Karl Alexander Prusz von Zlginitzki) (1884–1957) was an officer and military writer
- Ferdinand von Prondzynski (1804–1871), Prussian general. As Premier-Lieutenant he wrote a two-volume theory of war (1836..1848)
- Jacques François de Chastenet de Puységur (1656–1743), Marshal of France : Art de la Guerre, par principes et par règles
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- Qiao Liang 乔良 (* 1955), author of Unrestricted Warfare 超限战 (with Wang Xiangsui )
- Charles Sevin de Quincy (1660–1728), French general of the artillery, wrote a. a. the Histoire militaire du règne de Louis le Grand (8 vols., 1726)
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- Harold E. Raugh (* 1956), military writer
- Oskar Regele (1890–1969), military writer
- Henri de Rohan (1579–1638), Huguenot leader, Le parfait Capitaine (an adaptation of Caesar's rules of war), De l'intérêt des princes et des États de la chrétienté
- Heinrich Rohne (1842–1937), Prussian lieutenant general and military writer
- Erwin Rommel (1891–1944), German Field Marshal General, Infantry Attacks (1937)
- Arthur Rosenberg (1889–1943), historian of political science, A History of Bolshevism, From Marx to the First Five Years' Plan ( History of Bolshevism from Marx to the Present )
- Friedrich Ruge (1894–1985), German vice admiral and military writer
- Wilhelm Rüstow (1821–1878), military writer and historian
- Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974), The Longest Day ( The Longest Day ) and A Bridge Too Far ( A Bridge Too Far )
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- Emil Schalk , Summary of the Art of War; written expressly for and dedicated to the US volunteer army (Philadelphia 1862)
- Boris Michailowitsch Schaposchnikow (1882–1945), Marshal of the Soviet Union , The Brain of the Army (1927 and 1929)
- Gerhard David von Scharnhorst (1755-1813); General and military writer
- Wilhelm zu Schaumburg-Lippe (1834–1906), Count
- Justus Scheibert (1831–1903), engineer officer
- Sigismund von Schlichting (1829–1909), infantry theorist of the 19th century
- Alfred Graf von Schlieffen (1833–1913), inventor of the Schlieffen Plan
- Helmut Schmidt (1918–2015), German politician, Minister of Defense and Federal Chancellor, author of numerous strategic papers
- Hugo Schmidt von Boneti (1866–1918), major general and military writer
- Paul von Schmidt (1837–1905), Prussian major general and military writer
- Louis Schneider (1805–1878), actor, publicist, military writer; Soldier's Friend, a booklet for the Prussian infantryman ; From my life (3 vols. Bln: Mittler 1879/1880)
- Karl Ritter von Schönhals (1788–1857), Austrian military officer, military writer
- Wilhelm von Schramm (1898–1983), German officer, journalist and military writer, awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order in 1917
- Lazarus of Schwendi (1522–1583)
- Bernhard Schwertfeger (1868–1953), colonel, military writer
- Philippe-Paul de Ségur (1780–1873), French officer and military writer, Histoire de Napoléon et de la grande armée pendant 1812 (Paris 1824, 2 vols.)
- Alexander De Seversky (1894–1974): Decision by air power
- Richard Simpkin (1921-1986), military theorist
- Peter W. Singer (* 1974), Wired For War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
- Siegfried Sorge (1898–1989), German rear admiral and military writer
- Rolf Steinhaus (1916–2004), German vice admiral and military writer
- Hew Strachan (* 1949), military historian
- Sun Wu / Sun Tzu (around 544 BC - around 496 BC), ancient Chinese general and author of the Art of War
- Alexander Suvorov (1730–1800), Russian generalissimo and author of The Art of Victory
- Syed Ameer Ali (1849–1928): A Short History of the Saracens (1899)
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- at-Tabarī (839-923): Ta'rīch
- Carl Tanera (1849–1904), travel and military writer
- Stefan Terzibaschitsch (1926–2008), German-Serbian marine specialist
- Charles W. Thayer (1910–1969): Guerrillas and Partisans. Nature and methodology of irregular warfare (1964)
- Maximilian Friedrich von Thielen (1781–1856), officer and military writer
- Thucydides (before 454 BC - between 399 BC and 396 BC), author of the history of the Peloponnesian War
- Alfred von Tirpitz (1849–1930), German Grand Admiral and naval strategist
- Eduard Iwanowitsch von Totleben (1818–1884), German-Baltic general of the Russian army: Defense of Sevastopol. 2 volumes in 3, St. Petersburg, 1863–78; German from Lehmann Digitalisat Volume 1 (1865) , 2 (1872)
- Toynbee, Arnold J. (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 from the Lord. Leipzig by Friedrich Gotthold Jacobäern (1769; a collection of letters from the time of the Seven Years' War )
- Philippe-Charles-Jean-Baptiste Tronson du Coudray (1738–1777), French military and military writer: Mémoire sur la meilleure méthode d'extraire et de raffiner le salpêtre (Uppsala et Paris: Ruault, 1774)
- Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659–1719), author of Hagakure
- Mikhail Nikolajewitsch Tukhachevsky (1893–1937)
- Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne (1611–1675), French military leader and Marshal of France
- Lancelot Turpin de Crissé (1716–1793), French military: Essai sur l'art de la guerre (Paris 1754)
- Joachim Tydich (Tydichio), born in Berlin, is said to have distinguished himself in the Polish War in 1575, military writer and others
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- Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633–1707), French general, fortress builder of Louis XIV and Marshal of France
- Vaultier (18th century): Observations sur l'art de faire la guerre, suivant les maximes des plus grands généraux digitized
- Vegetius, see under Flavius Vegetius Renatus
- Julius von Verdy du Vernois (1832–1910), Prussian infantry general, minister of war and military theorist
- Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911–2013), Vietnamese general who designed the tactics and strategy of the Vietnamese war against the United States. His tactics were decisive for Điện Biên Phủ
- Eduard Freiherr von Voelderndorff and Waradein (1783–1847), Bavarian major general, military writer, Observations sur l'ouvrage de Mr. le Comte Ph. De Ségur , intitulé: Histoire de Napoléon et de la Grande - Armée pendant l'année 1812 (1826 )
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- Gerhard Wagner (1898–1987), German admiral and military theorist
- Johann Jacobi (Tautphoeus) von Wallhausen (1580–1627), the first German military writer
- Wang Xiangsui 王湘 穗 (* 1954), Unrestricted Warfare 超限战 (with Qiao Liang )
- Edward Wegener (1904–1981), German and NATO admiral, military theorist
- Wolfgang Wegener (1875–1956), German vice admiral and maritime strategic thinker
- Wei Liao , ancient Chinese military theorist from the Warring States Period ( book by Master Wei Liao / Wei Liaozi )
- Dieter Wellershoff (1933–2005), German admiral, inspector general of the Bundeswehr , founding president of the Federal Academy for Security Policy
- Reinhold von Werner (1825–1909), German vice admiral and military writer
- Johannes Wieland (1791–1832), Swiss officer and military writer, mountain warfare
- William of Tire (12th century), Chronica
- Ulrich Wille (1848–1925), Swiss general during the First World War, since 1867 officer in the artillery of the Swiss Army, led the mobilization with great success in 1914, since 1907 also professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich , military theorist
- Karl Wilhelm von Willisen (1790–1879), Prussian general and military writer, theory of the great war applied to the Russian-Polish campaign of 1831
- Ivan Vinarow (1896–1969), fighter on the silent front. Memories of a scout
- Quincy Wright (1890-1970): A Study of War (1965)
- Joseph Caldwell Wylie (1911-1993), naval officer; Military Strategy (1967)
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- Xenophon (. 430 to 425 BC -... To 355 BC), Greek writer, in his work Anabasis he draws the march of the Greek army through Asia Minor to
- Rudolf von Xylander , (1872–1946), Bavarian general and military historian
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- Friedrich Wilhelm von Zanthier (1741–1781), officer, military theorist, author of an experiment on the marches of the armies, the camps, battles and the plan of operations (Dresden 1778) and campaigns of the Viscount Türenne (Leipzig 1779)
- Sherifa Zuhur (1953–), American academic and security researcher on the Middle East and the Islamic world
- Beat Fidel Zurlauben (1720–1799), General of the Swiss Guard , author of the Histoire militaire des Suisses au Service de la France