Basil Henry Liddell Hart (1895–1970)

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1. 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

2. Basil Henry Liddell Hart

   Author of Strategy: Second Revised Edition (Meridian), History of The Second World War, Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon

3. Martin L. van Creveld

   Author of Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton, The Transformation of War: The Most Radical Reinterpretation of Armed Conflict Since Clausewitz, Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present

4. J.F.C. Fuller

   Author of The Generalship of Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar: Man, Soldier, and Tyrant (Da Capo Paperback), Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship

5. Cornelius Ryan

   Author of The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far, Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin

6. Russell Frank Weigley

   Author of The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy, Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany 1944-1945, The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo

7. 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

8. Lyn Macdonald

   Author of 1915: The Death of Innocence, 1914, The Roses of No Man's Land

9. Peter Paret

   Author of Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age, Clausewitz and the State

10. Alfred Thayer Mahan

    Author of The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783, The influence of sea power upon history, 1660-1805

11. Theodore Ayrault Dodge

    Author of Hannibal: A History of the Art of War Among the Carthaginians and Romans Down to the Battle of Pydna, 168 B.C., With a Detailed Account of the Second Punic War, Alexander: A History of the Origin and Growth of the Art Of War from the Earliest Times to the Battle of Ipsus, B.C. 301, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of the Great Macedonian, Caesar: A History of the Art of War Among the Romans Down to the End of the Roman Empire, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of Caius Julius Caesar

12. Max Hastings

    Author of Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, The Korean War, The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes

13. David G. Chandler

    Author of The Campaigns of Napoleon, The Art of Warfare in the Age of Marlborough, On the Napoleonic Wars: Collected Essays

14. Trevor N. Dupuy

    Author of A genius for war: The German army and general staff, 1807-1945, The Evolution of Weapons and Warfare, Numbers, prediction, and war: Using history to evaluate combat factors and predict the outcome of battles

15. Heinz Guderian

    Author of Panzer Leader, Achtung - Panzer! (Cassell Military Classics)

16. Jay Luvaas

    Author of Frederick the Great on the Art of War, The Military Legacy of the Civil War: The European Inheritance

17. John Willard Toland

    Author of The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (Modern Library War), The Last 100 Days

18. Victor Davis Hanson

    Author of Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power, The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny, Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think

19. Carl von Clausewitz

    Author of On War, The Campaign of 1812 in Russia

20. Archer Jones

    Author of The Art of War in Western World