Who writes military history?

“History is always written from the viewpoints of the leaders. And increasingly, in our age, war leaders do not get shot at with any serious consistency. Leaders make momentous, world-encompassing historical decisions. It is your average anonymous soldier, or pilot, or naval gunnery rating who has to carry them out on the ground… where there is often a vast difference between grandiose logic and plans and what takes place on the terrain.”

– James Jones