List of military theorists

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• Friedrich von Bernhardi
• Ivan Bloch
• John Boyd, inventor of the OODA Loop and nicknamed "40 Second Boyd"
• Antoine de Brack
• Charles E. Callwell
• Lazare Carnot
• Chanakya (Kautilya)
• Carl von Clausewitz, soldier and writer of the uncompleted On War
• Menno van Coehoorn
• John Colomb
• Julian Corbett
• Martin van Creveld
• Giulio Douhet
• Paul Kennedy
• Mikhail Dragomirov
• Bernard Fall
• Frederick II of Prussia
• J. F. C. Fuller
• Vo Nguyen Giap
• Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz
• Heinz Guderian
• Erich von Manstein
• Robert Greene, the author of The 33 Strategies of War and The 48 Laws of Power
• George Grivas
• Che Guevara
• Antoine de Jomini
• Herman Kahn
• Henry Kissinger
• David J. Kirk III
• John Knox Laughton
• T. E. Lawrence
• B. H. Liddell-Hart
• Stephen B. Luce
• Niccolò Machiavelli, the father of political science and author of the book The Prince
• Alfred Thayer Mahan
• Carlos Marighella
• Maurice of Nassau
• Billy Mitchell
• Ardant du Picq
• Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox
• Hugh Trenchard
• Thomas Schelling
• Sigismund von Schlichting
• Vasily Sokolovsky
• Alexander Suvorov
• Eduard Totleben
• Mikhail Tukhachevsky
• Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban
• Vegetius
• Julius von Verdy du Vernois
• John Warden
• H. G. Wells
• Garnet Wolseley
• André Beaufre
• Sun Tzu
• Miyamoto Musashi