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…

- John Keegan

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been ne…

- John Keegan

Slavery in the modern world implies the absolute deprivation of the individual's liberty, while possession of weapons and mastery of their use are me…

- John Keegan

The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all it oceans. It killed 50 …

- John Keegan

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

- John Keegan

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

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force

- John Keegan

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system o…

- John Keegan

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

- John Keegan