Military treatise

A military treatise or treatise on war is any work that deals with the "art of war" in some basic aspect.

These may include, among others, description of specific battles, sieges, general campaigns, reports of military authorities, and commented works about ground or naval battles.

The term treatise derives from the Latin word "tractatus", meaning a formal, systematic discourse.

[1] Considering the various aspects of the war, the armies and the military operations, a chronology of military treatises allows to locate each work within a timeline, facilitating its consultation and comparison with similar works.

This chronology includes actual military treatises together with some works related to the subject (military expeditions or campaigns, descriptions of sieges and others).

Page from a 14th-century French translation of Epitoma rei militaris
Outline of a Roman camp.
De ivre belli ac pacis , cover of the second edition of 1631.