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Senior Executive Service John D Burrow Deputy Commander, Marine Corps Systems Command, C4ISR Mr. Burrow has over twenty years experience in the definition, design, development, integration, test, and operational employment of combat systems and Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) systems, and over 15 years experience in technical line and program management.
On 9 February 2011, the AFCEA Quantico-Potomac Chapter hosted a luncheon at The Clubs at Quanctico. The topic for the luncheon focused on how industry can work with Marine Corps Systems Command with an emphasis on IT acquisition. We were honored to have as our guest speaker, Dr. John D. Burrow, the Executive Director, Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, VA.
The past what actually happened, how it actually was is one thing. History what historians and others have made of the past, or their pasts is quite another. Often enough, the latter involves a hazardous excursion into a desperately foreign country of the mind. Historiography the study of how as well as what historians have written is another thing again. This is the special terrain of John Burrow, latterly a distinguished professor at Sussex and Oxford. He reconnoitres and surveys it with the eye of an experienced tracker, and the pen of a born littrateur.
Quintilian, the first established professor of rhetoric at Rome, declared that he would not shrink from comparing Sallust to Thucydides. John Burrow, doyen of European written intellectual-cultural history, more than stands comparison with any number of his subjects. He deserves his place on the practising historian's shelf alongside such luminous historiographers as John Clive, Tony Grafton, Arnaldo Momigliano and Fritz Stern.
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