Military top- brass as historians By Gamini Weerakoon View(s): View(s):Until the lions have their own historians, the tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters — An African proverb. As a journalist who has known both military top brass and historians, I have grave doubts about military men becoming historians in as much as professional historians closeted in academia turning out to be admirals or generals. Nonetheless, in these days, there is a substantial proportion of the populace that believes in military men being Supermen capable of any feat such as repeating Dutugemunu feats or beautifying Colombo-7 roads. That, however, is not the main problem of our military historians. There are no Nazi historians and Japanese war lords as historians of note to speak about.

Source: Sunday Times September 01, 2018 18:45 UTC