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Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian diplomat and political and military theorist (1469–1527)
Sun Tzu
6th century BCE Chinese general and military strategist
Pervez Musharraf
Pakistani soldier and politician (1943-2023)
Erwin Rommel
German field marshal (1891-1944)
Carl von Clausewitz
German-Prussian general and military theorist
Alexander Suvorov
Russian marshal (1730–1800)
Heinz Guderian
German general
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Marshal of the Soviet Union (1893—1937)
Mikhail Frunze
Soviet army officer (1885–1925)
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
French military engineer (1633–1707)
Alfred von Schlieffen
Prussian Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff (1833-1913)
B. H. Liddell Hart
British historian and theoretician of war (1895-1970)
Vasily Sokolovsky
Soviet marshal (1897–1968)
Hans von Seeckt
German general (1866-1936)
Maurice de Saxe
Marshal General of France (1696-1750)
Alfred von Tirpitz
German Admiral and Secretary of State of the German Imperial Naval Office (1849-1930)
Alfred Thayer Maan
United States Navy admiral and historian (1840–1914)
Raimondo, Prince Montecuccoli
politician and military commander of the Holy Roman Empire (1609-1680)
Sergey Gorshkov
Soviet admiral (1910–1988)
Paul Virilio
French philosopher (1932–2018)
Antoine-Henri Jomini
French-Swiss officer who served as a general with the French and Russian armies and writer on the art of war (1779-1869)
Giulio Douhet
Italian general (1869–1930)
Prince Adalbert of Prussia
Prussian admiral; fifth child of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and Princess Marie Anna of Hesse-Homburg
John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen
Count of Nassau-Siegen (1606-1623)
Vladimir Triandafillov
Soviet military commander and theoretician (1894-1931)
Alexander Andreyevich Svechin
Imperial Russian Army and Soviet general (1878–1938)
Marc René, marquis de Montalembert
French general (1714–1800)
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
Pakistani general
Ardant du Picq
French Army officer (1821–1870)
John Boyd
American pilot and Pentagon consultant
Ioan Iacob Heraclid
ruler of Moldavia (1511–1563)
Liu Huaqing
Chinese admiral (1916-2011)
Julian Corbett
British naval historian
Álvaro de Navia Osorio y Vigil
Spanish General and diplomat (1684-1732)
Aleksandr Verkhovsky
Russian military personnel (1886-1938)
Sima Rangju
Chinese general during the Spring and Autumn period
Andrzej Maksymilian Fredro
Polish noble (c. 1620–1679)
Bernard Brodie
American nuclear strategist (1910-1978)
Nikolai Golovin
Russian general and military historian (1875–1944)
Pavel Lebedev
Russian major general (1872–1933)
Ayesha Siddiqa
Pakistani journalist and scholar
Jean Charles, Chevalier Folard
French military writer (1669-1752)
Sigismund von Schlichting
German general (1829–1909)
Wolfgang Wegener
German admiral (1875–1956)
André Beaufre
French general (1902–1975)
Adam Veyde
Russian general of German origin (1667–1720)
Zhang Zhaozhong
Chinese rear admiral
Louis Loyzeau de Grandmaison
French general (1861-1915)
Jovan Mišković
Serbian military officer
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Frederick Sykes
British Army general (1877-1954)
David Galula
French Army officer (1919 – 1967)
Bolesław Chocha
Polish military officer and politician
Tariq Majid
Pakistani general
Jean Claude Eléonore de Michaud d'Arçon
French politician (1733-1800)
Satō Tetsutarō
Japanese politician (1866–1942)
Luo Yuan
Chinese general
Vladimir Grendal
Soviet colonel general and artillery theorist (1884–1940)
Dennis Hart Mahan
American military academic
Hugo Raab
Swedish military personnel (1831-1881)