Qiao Liang (; born 9 January 1955) is a retired major general in the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), military theorist, and author. He is the deputy director of the creative department of the PLAAF, the deputy secretary-general of the Council for National Security Policy Studies, and a member of the Chinese Writers Association. In 2007, he presented a lecture series on China Central Television (CCTV) about the Thirty-Six Stratagems.
Qiao was born in 1955 to a military family. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army Air Force in 1972, serving in a variety of technical posts at Lanzhou Military District. He was eventually promoted to the rank of Major General and began working at the PLAAF Command College by 2011.
According to his official biography, Qiao is a member of the People's Liberation Airforce Air Force Expert Committee, a member of the Rocket Force Military Theory Advisory Expert Group, and a frequent keynote speaker on China Central Television (CCTV)'s "Hundred Lectures" series.
Qiao began writing fiction in 1974, and he was admitted to the Chinese Writers Association in 1984.
In 1999, he co-authored the book Unrestricted Warfare with Wang Xiangsui, exploring how the United States could hypothetically be defeated by technologically inferior forces, and how the concept of warfare could be expanded beyond traditional battlefield engagements. Qiao and Wang later published an updated edition of Unrestricted Warfare.