The tone used in Mask of Command by John Keegan is objective in nature. Sir John Keegan (1934 - ) is a British military historian, lecturer, writer for the National Review Online, and Defence Correspondent and Defence Editor for the Daily Telegraph. Throughout the years, Keegan has devoted himself to writing about a wide variety of military heroes and battles from an academician's point of view. Keegan also manages to impart information that interests the non-academic reader.