John Keegan

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Born

15 May 1934

Died

2 Aug 2012

Works

81

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Sir John Keegan (born 1934) is a British military historian, lecturer and journalist. As an author he has published a number of works ranging from coverage of 14th Century to 21st Century warfare in the domains of land, air, maritime and intelligence warfare and the psychology of conflict. Keegan was born in Clapham, the son of an Irish Catholic family, whose father served in the in First World War. At the age of 13 Keegan contracted orthopedic tuberculosis which has subsequently affected his

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5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 200,187x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,528x

3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,305x

4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 34,190x

5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

   · 1992 · cited 28,820x

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Quotes

• “The First World War inaugurated the manufacture of mass deaths that the Second brought to a pitiless consummation.”
• “War’s rancours are quick to bite and slow to heal.”
• “Within fifteen years of the war’s end, totalitarianism, a new word for a system that rejected the liberalism and constitutionalism which had inspired European politics since the eclipse of monarchy in 1789, was almost everywhere on the rise. Totalitarianism was the political continuation of war by other means.”
• “It was broadly true that all European royalty were cousins; even the Habsburgs of Austria, most imperious of sovereigns, occasionally mingled their blood with outsiders; and since every state in Europe, except France and Switzerland, was a monarchy, that made for a very dense network of interstate connections indeed.”
• “The effect exerted by paper plans on the unfolding of events must never be exaggerated. Plans do not determine outcomes. The happenings set in motion by a particular scheme of action will rarely be those narrowly intended, are intrinsically unpredictable and will ramify far beyond the anticipation of the instigator. So it was to prove with the Schlieffen plan.”
• “Time, in all crises, is usually the ingredient missing to make a solution. It is best supplied by an agreement on a pause.”

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