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Military historian john keegan, a longtime critic of the relevance of clausewitz and his theories, used the outcome of the liberation of kuwait in 1991 to discount the validity of clausewitzian ideals when applied to nonwestern regimes. After graduation, he went to the united states on a grant to study the civil war. He received a degree in history from balliol college, oxford in 1953. The iraq war remains highly controversial, but in all the uncertainty about weapons of mass destruction, the use and misuse of intelligence, it remains an awesome military and. At the age of keegan contracted orthopaedic tuberculosis. For the past half century, john keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of americas most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums. John keegan, may 15, 1934 august 2, 2012 john keegan was born in london, england on may 15, 1934.
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