John Keegan, the great military historian, has passed away at age 78.
That NYT obituary I linked gives some sense of the way his writing could be simultaneously magisterial and (/therefore) strenuous, both insightful and frustrating. I am just about the opposite of an infantryman… but then again Keegan himself never served in the military. So I’d like to pick out the idea which gives The Mask of Command, his study of military leadership, its title, and note its countercultural nature.
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