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Title: Nice work
Review: The English praise their John Keegan as the world's greatest military historian. This is funny for a mono-lingual people. Two-thirds of all military history books are by "foreigners" and are not written in English!!!!!! Even despite the English chauvinism I do think that Mr Keegan is an excellent writer. While he does little research in archivs he is good at synthesis; at pulling together good arguments from other writers' books. He has done this here, and very well I must say. His thesis that intelligence determines successes and failures, but has not won wars by itself, is really stating the obvious, but he states it forcefully enough that no military officer reading the book will feel comfortable without developing an obsesion for knowledge. Nice book. Yes
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