Martin L. van Creveld

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1. Martin L. van Creveld

   Author of Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton, The Sword and the Olive: A Critical History of the Israeli Defense Force, MOSHE DAYAN (Great Commanders)

2. John Keegan

   Author of A History of Warfare, Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris, Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle

3. Russell Frank Weigley

   Author of The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy, The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo, History of the United States Army

4. David M. Glantz

   Author of When Titans clashed: how the Red Army stopped Hitler, Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War (Modern War Studies), AUGUST STORM: SOVIET TACTICAL AND OPERATIONAL COMBAT IN MANCHURIA, 1945: Leavenworth Papers No. 8.

5. Edward N. Luttwak

   Author of The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third, Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace, Revised and Enlarged Edition

6. Michael Eliot Howard

   Author of War in European History, Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France 1870-1871, Revised Edition

7. Peter Paret

   Author of Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age, Understanding War: Essays on Clausewitz and the History of Military Power

8. Robert D. Kaplan

   Author of Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos, The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War

9. Colin S. Gray

   Author of Modern Strategy, Leverage of Sea Power: The Strategic Advantage of Navies in War

10. Victor Davis Hanson

    Author of Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power, Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think, Wars of the Ancient Greeks (Smithsonian History of Warfare)

11. Basil Henry Liddell Hart

    Author of Strategy: Second Revised Edition (Meridian), The German Generals Talk

12. Hans Delbrück

    Author of Warfare in Antiquity: History of the Art of War, Volume I (Warfare in Antiquity), Medieval Warfare: History of the Art of War, Volume III (History of the Art of War, Vol 3), The Dawn of Modern Warfare: History of the Art of War, Volume IV (History of the Art of War, Vol 4)

13. Eliot A. Cohen

    Author of Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War, Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime

14. Trevor N. Dupuy

    Author of Numbers, prediction, and war: Using history to evaluate combat factors and predict the outcome of battles, Understanding War: History and Theory of Combat

15. John Albert Lynn

    Author of Battle: A History of Combat and Culture, Feeding Mars: Logistics in Western Warfare from the Middle Ages to the Present (History and Warfare)

16. Paddy Griffith

    Author of Forward into Battle: Fighting Tactics from Waterloo to the Near Future

17. Williamson Murray

    Author of War in the Air 1914-45 (Smithsonian History of Warfare) (Smithsonian History of Warfare), The Past as Prologue: The Importance of History to the Military Profession

18. Thomas X. Hammes

    Author of The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century

19. Geoffrey Parker

    Author of The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800

20. Williamson R. Murray

    Author of Military Innovation in the Interwar Period