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Richard Holmes (military historian)
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<p>Edward Richard Holmes, <a href="/facts/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire/HlY9buuN">CBE</a>, <a href="/facts/Territorial_Decoration/lhNDEgek">TD</a>, VR, <a href="/facts/Justice_of_the_Peace/TNVBnh4l">JP</a> (29 March 1946 – 30 April 2011), known as Richard Holmes, was a British <a href="/facts/Military_historian/AKonYGMV">military historian</a>. He was co-director of <a href="/facts/Cranfield_University/Q6rsfoad">Cranfield University</a>'s Security and Resilience Group from 1989 to 2009 and became Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield in 1995. </p>