John Burton Kegel
Biographic Data
| ID | 5153586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Burton Kegel |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Burton |
| FAMILY NAME | Kegel |
| SIGNATURE | KEGEL J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Netherlands Defence Academy |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-3189-7509 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Searching for the African Clausewitz
Built around a corpus of ‘classic thinkers’ such as Carl von Clausewitz, the field of strategic studies has a decidedly Eurocentric basis that is entirely devoid of African thinkers and case studies. In contrast, this article shows that there is a rich tradition of African military thought that deserves further academic scrutiny. Through a comparative analysis, this article discusses three key elements of modern African military thought: the ecle…
Frontline state security
Exile is a key dimension of armed groups, which often depend on the safety of third-party countries to establish headquarters, train soldiers, and forge connections with the outside world. A fitting illustration are the Frontline States in Africa, which offered refuge to multiple national liberation movements in the second half the twentieth century. While it is generally acknowledged that exile offers ample opportunities for armed groups to deve…
The Cambridge History of Strategy
Volume I of The Cambridge History of Strategy offers a history of the practice of strategy from the beginning of recorded history, to the late eighteenth century, from all parts of the world. Drawing on material evidence covering two-and-a-half millennia, an international team of leading scholars in each subject examines how strategy was formulated and applied and with what tools, from ancient Greece and China to the Ottoman and Mughal Empires an…
Strategy in the Wars of Pre-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa
As noted by Richard Reid, African military history remains ‘perhaps the last bastion of the kind of distorted Eurocentric scholarship that characterised African studies before the 1960s’. This is especially true of the pre-colonial period, on account of both the dearth and the inherent limitations and biases of the sources available for study. The purpose of this contribution is to show that, in both tactical and strategic terms, African pre-colo…
Colonial Impotence
From 1911 onward Unilever set about constructing a plantation empire in what was then Belgian Congo, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Working with the colonial authorities, the company was allowed to choose 750,000 hectares of land within five circles, each with a sixty-kilometer radius. The concession rights that came with the land included practically exclusive rights to purchase palm products from the local population and establish pa…
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Colonial Impotence
From 1911 onward Unilever set about constructing a plantation empire in what was then Belgian Congo, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Working with the colonial authorities, the company was allowed to choose 750,000 hectares of land within five circles, each with a sixty-kilometer radius. The concession rights that came with the land included practically exclusive rights to purchase palm products from the local population and establish pa…
The Cambridge History of Strategy
Volume I of The Cambridge History of Strategy offers a history of the practice of strategy from the beginning of recorded history, to the late eighteenth century, from all parts of the world. Drawing on material evidence covering two-and-a-half millennia, an international team of leading scholars in each subject examines how strategy was formulated and applied and with what tools, from ancient Greece and China to the Ottoman and Mughal Empires an…
Strategy in the Wars of Pre-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa
As noted by Richard Reid, African military history remains ‘perhaps the last bastion of the kind of distorted Eurocentric scholarship that characterised African studies before the 1960s’. This is especially true of the pre-colonial period, on account of both the dearth and the inherent limitations and biases of the sources available for study. The purpose of this contribution is to show that, in both tactical and strategic terms, African pre-colo…
Searching for the African Clausewitz
Built around a corpus of ‘classic thinkers’ such as Carl von Clausewitz, the field of strategic studies has a decidedly Eurocentric basis that is entirely devoid of African thinkers and case studies. In contrast, this article shows that there is a rich tradition of African military thought that deserves further academic scrutiny. Through a comparative analysis, this article discusses three key elements of modern African military thought: the ecle…
Frontline state security
Exile is a key dimension of armed groups, which often depend on the safety of third-party countries to establish headquarters, train soldiers, and forge connections with the outside world. A fitting illustration are the Frontline States in Africa, which offered refuge to multiple national liberation movements in the second half the twentieth century. While it is generally acknowledged that exile offers ample opportunities for armed groups to deve…
African history and culture studies (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works)