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- Lazare Carnot
- Caleb Carr – military historian, Lessons of Terror, The Devil Soldier
- Nigel Cawthorne – POW histories: The Bamboo Cage, The Iron Cage
- Chanakya – Arthashastra
- Robert M. Citino – German Way of War, Quest for Decisive Victory, Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm, Death of the Wehrmacht, several others
- Tom Clancy – Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, Net Force, others
- Carl von Clausewitz – military theorist, On War
- Menno van Coehoorn
- John Colomb
- Julian Corbett – Edwardian British Naval theorist, Some Principles of Maritime Strategy
- Anthony Cordesman
- Martin van Creveld – expanded theory of war proponent
- Arthur Currie
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