This is a list of military writers, alphabetical by last name.
See also list of military theorists.

Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz
Zeng Gongliang (曾公亮), Ding Du (丁度), and Yang Weide (Wujing Zongyao, 1044 AD)
Heinz Guderian
Che Guevara (foco theory)
Antoine de Jomini
Shen Kuo (Dream Pool Essays)
John Knox Laughton
T. E. Lawrence
Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine emperor (Taktika)
B. H. Liddell-Hart
Robert Greene (The 33 Strategies of War, The 48 Laws of Power)
Stephen B. Luce
Niccolò Machiavelli (The Prince)
Mao Zedong
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Maurice, Byzantine emperor (Strategikon)
Maurice of Nassau
Billy Mitchell
François-Henri de Montmorency
Ardant du Picq
Wu Qi (died 381 BC; Wuzi)
Hugh Trenchard
Sigismund von Schlichting
Alexander Suvorov
Eduard Totleben
Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban
Vegetius
Julius von Verdy du Vernois
H. G. Wells
Garnet Wolseley
André Beaufre
Miyamoto Musashi (The Book of Five Rings)
Bernard Brodie
Lucien Poirier
Henry Kissinger
Pierre-Marie Gallois
Comte de Guibert
Ferdinand Foch
Michel Ney
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (De Re Militari)
Erwin Rommel (The Tank in Attack)
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Zhuge Liang
Khalid ibn Walid
Napoleon I of France
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Arthur Currie
Jiao Yu and Liu Ji (Huolongjing)
Wang Xiangsui and Quia Lang, (Unrestricted Warfare, 1999)
Anonymous, Thirty-Six Strategies
Ailleret, Charles
Allinson, Sidney Canadian military historian and historical novelist, author of The Bantams: The Untold Story Of World War One and Kruger's Gold: A novel of the Anglo-Boer War.
Bayo, Alberto, Latin American Revolutionary, author of A Manual of Guerilla Warfare.
Bendell, Don, author Crossbow, The B-52 Overture, Valley of Tears, Snake-Eater, as well as modern military thriller Criminal Investigation Detachment.
von Bernhardi, Friedrich
Bloch, Ivan
Boyd, John
F. de Brack
Brecher, Gary, author of War Nerd.
Bregman, Ahron, author of several books on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Boyd, John, inventor of the OODA Loop or decision cycle.
Bustin, Steven, author of Humble Heroes: How the USS Nashville CL43 Fought WWII.
Carr, Caleb, Military historian, author of "Lessons of Terror," "The Devil Soldier," and others.
Ward Carroll, editor of Military.com, author of "Punk's War,""Punk's Wing," "Punk's Fight," "The Aide," and "Militia Kill."
Lazare Carnot
Chanakya, author of Arthashastra.
Clancy, Tom, author of Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, Net Force, others.
Charles E. Callwell, author of Small Wars: A Tactical Textbook for Imperial Soldiers, first published 1906.
Clausewitz, Carl von, general and author of On War.
Menno van Coehoorn
John Colomb
Corbett, Julian, Edwardian British Naval theorist author of Some Principles of Maritime Strategy, rough contemporary of Mahan.
Martin van Creveld, proponent of an expanded theory of war.
Julian Corbett
Giulio Douhet
Dragomirov, Mikhail, the most celebrated Russian military theoretician.
Du Picq, Ardant, french military theorist and author of Battle Studies.
Edwards, Jeff, author of Torpedo.
Ercilla, Alonso de y Zúñiga, author of La Araucana.
Frontinus, Sextus Julius , author of the Stratagemata.
Fuller, J.F.C., theoretician of tank warfare.
Frederick II of Prussia
Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnamese general responsible for success of the Vietnamese in the Vietnam war; was decisive in the victory at Dien Ben Phu.
Goltz, Colmar Freiherr von der, 19th century general and theorist.
Guderian, Heinz, German General, Developed principles of Blitzkrieg, author of Achtung Panzer!
Guevara, Ernesto Che, Argentinian revolutionary, diary outlined the guerrilla war being fought in Bolivia.
Hart, B.H. Liddell, proponent of the "indirect approach", influential on all 20th century military thinking.
Herodotus, ancient Greek historian whose book, The Histories, focuses primarily on the Persian invasion of Greece in the 5th century BC.
Johns, Michael, foreign policy and national security analyst and writer.
Jomini, Antoine Henri, general, wrote on the Napoleonic Wars including Precis de l'Art de la Guerre (Precis on the Art of War) and Traité des grandes opérations militaires (Treatise on Grand Military Operations).
Josephus wrote The Wars of the Jews
Keegan, John, Military historian.
Leonhard, Robert, Military theorist.
Luttwack, Edward, Theorist, identified the 'Dynamic Paradox' of strategy.
John Frederick Maurice (1841-1912), soldier, military writer
Mao Zedong, Chinese leader and guerrilla theorist.
Machiavelli, Niccolo, political theorist, author of The Prince and Dell'arte della guerra (The Art of War).
Mahan, Alfred Thayer, naval strategist.
Mahan, Dennis Hart, Military theorist and Engineering professor at West Point, father of Alfred Thayer Mahan, wrote "Advanced Guard, Outpost and Detachment Service of Troops, with essential Principles of Strategy and Grand Tactics" commonly known as "Outpost".
Marighella, Carlos, Brazilian "urban guerrilla", wrote Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla.
Martin, Tyrone G., USS Constitution expert.
Moore, Robin, wrote The Hunt for Bin Laden: Task Force Dagger.
Rommel, Erwin, German Field Marshal during WWII, noted for his book Infantry Attacks (Infanterie greift an) and armored battle theory.
Rosenberg, Arthur, political historian, wrote "A history of Bolshevism from Marx to the first Five years' plan".
Ryan, Cornelius, wrote The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far.
Schalk, Emil, Summary of the Art of War.
Schlichting, Sigismund von, 19th century infantry theorist.
Simpkin, Richard, Military theorist.
Strachan, Hew, Military historian.
Alexander Suvorov, generalissimo and author of The Science of Victory.
Sun Tzu, general and author of The Art of War.
Tiberius, Flavius Mauricius, Byzantine Emperor and traditional author of the military treatise Strategikon.
Thucydides, author of History of the Peloponnesian War.
Verdy du Vernois, Julius von, 19th century general and theorist.
West, Bing, Military historian.
Xenophon, his Anabasis recording the Greeks' march out of Asia Minor.
Miyamoto Musashi, feudal Japan (circa 15th century) author of The Book of Five Rings.
Flavius Arrianus Xenophon, known as Arrian in English, author of Anabasis Alexandri The Campaigns of Alexander the Great.
Tsunetomo, Yamamoto, author of Hagakure.
Vegetius, author of De Re Militari, the primary military manual used in Western Europe during the Middle Ages.