Who is Sir John Glubb, and why should anyone care?

[Luís Henrique]

I have seen MRAs citing a certain Sir John Glubb as some great authority in the field of history (and supposedly someone who 'demonstrated' that women's rights cause 'decadence'). Wikipedia however seems only interested in his military career, and Amazon lists some 17 books by him, but the surveys are quite meaningless.

Does anyone have any notion about this supposed "historian"? Is he even mentioned in the British academia? Are there any useful criticisms of his work (even, and indeed, preferably, criticism by other conservatives or reactionaries)? Or is the guy so obscure that no one ever cared to refute him?

Luís Henrique

[Hit The North]

http://www.the-spearhead.com/2010/01/14/john-bagot-glubb/

The above article offers some choice quotes from his book, The Fate of Empires, where he offers his inevitable stages between the rise and fall of all human empires. He seems the epitome of the elitistTory historian beloved of the British academy but what his reputation is, I have no clue.