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Rest in Peace RIP R.I.P.
bigdog:
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2012/06/jesse-glover-bruce-lees-first-student-dies-at-77/
Jesse Glover, the first student of martial arts legend Bruce Lee, died on Wednesday at age 77 after a battle with cancer, according to close friend and past student Steve Smith.
Glover, a lifelong Seattlite, used what he learned from Lee and his days as a judo champion to become a prominent leader in the martial arts community himself. While developing a method called non-classical Gung Fu, he worked as a private martial arts trainer in Seattle and eventually taught across the nation and as far as Germany, according to Glover’s training website.
Lee and Glover met in 1959 while attending Edison Technical School, now Seattle Central Community College. Glover had already seen Lee demonstrate Gung Fu on stage when he ran into him on campus and asked to be his first student. They became good friends and trained together for four years.
Crafty_Dog:
I read his "History of Warfare" and found it quite erudite and insightful.
John Keegan 1934-2012
A Scholar of Soldiers in Battle
By STEPHEN MILLER
John Keegan was among the pre-eminent historians of war. His many books brought new perspectives to bear on armed conflict from ancient times up to the Iraq war.
Readers flocked to his work, starting with "The Face of Battle," his 1976 best-seller that focused attention on what it was like to be in a battle rather than on generals and their strategies.
His death on Thursday at age 78 was announced by The Daily Telegraph, the London newspaper where he served as defense editor.
Mr. Keegan was for many years a lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and over the decades counted many of Britain's future military leaders among his students.
He joined the Telegraph in 1986, in time to cover the breakup of the Soviet Union and later conflicts that the British became involved in, from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf War to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
But it was his histories that made the deepest impression on American readers.
In "A History of Warfare" Mr. Keegan presented swaths of military history, reaching back to prehistoric times to put war in cultural context. Controversially, he rejected Clausewitz's dictum that war is politics by other means, insisting that war is even more integral to civilization.
With "Fields of Battle" Mr. Keegan narrowed his focus slightly, to North America, with special attention to how the continent's landscapes have shaped warfare there.
"It is not accidental that Champlain, the founder of French Canada, was a skilled mapmaker or that George Washington, the victor of the War of American Independence, was by profession a surveyor who had recorded the topography of wide areas of the back country over which he was later to campaign," Mr. Keegan wrote.
He also produced histories of the First and Second World Wars and the American Civil War, as well as "The Mask of Command," about how leaders from Alexander the Great to Ulysses S. Grant to Hitler managed to inspire the men under their command.
Though born in London, Mr. Keegan was evacuated for the duration of World War II and had little direct experience of hostilities. A persistent case of tuberculosis kept him bed-bound for most of his teens, an experience he credited with encouraging a scholarly disposition. He studied military history at Balliol College at Oxford University.
In 1960, Mr. Keegan was hired at Sandhurst, where he began his research into the battlefield experiences of soldiers. "The Face of Battle" described how British soldiers acted in three important battles: Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme. Drunkenness, mayhem and earsplitting noise were rampant, he found. This was military history in a new key.
Deemed a classic, the book and highlighted more than once in The Wall Street Journal's weekly "Five Best" book feature,is still in print more than three decades later.
Mr. Keegan followed up on the same theme in "Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle," a 1985 companion to a BBC television series.
Mr. Keegan described himself as "95 per cent pacifist," but thought war was inevitable.
"I don't think you can run this wicked world without armed force," he told the Los Angeles Times in 1990.
—Email remembrances@wsj.com
bigdog:
This is a major loss. Not only from the history of warfare, but also the history of warfare strategy. There is a major and important difference, and his contribution to second area may not be equaled again.
bigdog:
Reports of Bob Bremer's passing... :-(
Stickgrappler:
--- Quote from: bigdog on October 14, 2012, 07:37:55 AM ---Reports of Bob Bremer's passing... :-(
--- End quote ---
I've read the same.
RIP Bremer sifu
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