Guerrilla warfare theorists

1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)

Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, politician, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.

Venezuelan statesman and military officer (1783–1830)

president of Argentina (1946–55, 1973–74)

British archaeologist, army officer and diplomat (1888–1935)

Vietnamese general and communist politician (1911–2013)

Afghan military leader (1953–2001)

Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary (1888–1934)

Irish revolutionary and politician (1890–1922)

war leader and president of the Rif Republic from 1921 to 1926

Leader of the Senussi resistance against the Italian fascist occupation (1858–1931)

Angolan political and military leader (1934-2002)

intellectual, journalist, official, professor

British Army officer, creator of the Chindit mission in World War II (1903–1944)

Minister of Interior Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

Brazilian politician, writer, and guerrilla fighter (1911–1969)

American historian and political commentator (1921-2018)

Cypriot general (1897–1974)

Cuban military leader of the defeated left-wing Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War (1892-1967)

Nicaraguan politician (1936-2020)

Vietnamese general (1915–1986)

French political scientist and historian (1934–2025)

American CIA case officer and author

9th Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan

Pakistani general (1936–2015)

Dominican Republic politician (1816-1864)

Danish general

American counter-terrorism expert

Panamanian revolutionary (1940–1985)

Spanish author, economist and educator (1913-1993)

Irish soldier and guerrilla leader (1897-1980)

American civil servant

Libyan resistance leader

French Army officer (1919 – 1967)

American warfare theorist

Swiss military officer and military theorist (1926-2002)