John Keegan

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done. ↗

— John Keegan

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It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble. ↗

— John Keegan

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Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed? ↗

— John Keegan

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Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did. ↗

— John Keegan

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Some people are more terrorist than others. ↗

— John Keegan

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The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought. ↗

— John Keegan

#always #battle #better #chinese #classics

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people. ↗

— John Keegan

#change #great #great men #men #nations

The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West. ↗

— John Keegan

#about #brought #century #compared #dates

We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes. ↗

— John Keegan

#major #may #political changes

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they? ↗

— John Keegan

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