Ghost soldier

Ghost soldier may refer to:

Military uses

• Ghost soldiers, people whose names appear on military rolls, but are not in military service, generally used to divert salaries
• Ghost Army soldiers, members of a United States Army tactical deception unit during World War II
• Shabiha, Arabic for ghost, an ultra-loyal militia previously enforcing rule of Syria's Assad family

Commemorative uses

• Ghost Soldiers, a 2016 re-enactment event across Britain memorialising the 100 year anniversary of the WWI Battle of the Somme

In popular culture

Books

• Ghost Soldier, a 2001 book by Elaine Marie Alphin
• Ghost Soldiers, a 2002 non-fiction book by Hampton Sides
• Ghost Soldiers, a 2003 juvenile adventure novel by Justin Richards
• Ghost Soldiers, a 2012 fiction by Keith Melton
• Ghost Soldiers of Gettysburg: Searching for Spirits on America's Most Famous Battlefield, a 2014 book by Jack Roth and Patrick Burke
• Ghost Soldier, a 2014 book by Evelyn Klebert
• Ghost Soldier, a 2014 children's book by Theresa Breslin
• Clive Cussler Ghost Soldier, a 2024 techno-thriller espionage book by Mike Maden

Short stories

• The Ghost Soldiers, a 1981 short story and later book chapter by Tim O'Brien published in Esquire

Film

• The Ghost Soldier, a 1979 war horror directed by Scott Allen Nollen
• Ghost Soldier, a 2006 war drama directed by Allan Tsao
• Ghost Soldier, alternative title of a 2026 action thriller directed by Will Eubank