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Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan OBE FRSL (15 May 1934 – 2 August 2012) was an English military historian, lecturer, author and journalist. He wrote many published works on the nature of combat between prehistory and the 21st century, covering land, air, maritime, intelligence warfare and the psychology of battle .
Aug 9, 2012 · John Keegan did not emerge as the greatest living authority of military warfare by chance. As good generals do, he managed the circumstances of his life, both good and bad, with consummate skill...
Keegan—despite describing events and persons long the subject of scholars, sensationalists, biographers, and others—does just that. He delivers the telling fact, the revealing quote, the astounding statistic that sets great writing apart from good.
Aug 7, 2012 · Keegan, who died Thursday at age 78, chronicled the history of warfare from Alexander the Great to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and was considered one of the foremost military historians of his...
John Keegan is our generation’s foremost military historian. His 1976 book “The Face of Battle” helped start what is still called “the new military history,” with its emphasis on the cultural...
Sir John Keegan was a British military historian, lecturer, prolific author, and long-time defence correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph.
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The prudent commander avoids direct offensives against an enemy firmly in position, which typically serves to exhaust the attacker, and seeks instead to upset the equilibrium of his adversary by striking at unexpected locations in unexpected ways. Keegan, if anything, was anti-theory.
