Christ P. M. Klep (born 1959) [1] is a Dutch military historian. He is a lecturer at Utrecht University and freelance historian and publicist. He has appeared amongst others on Pauw & Witteman, NPO Radio 1 and Knevel & Van de Brink, and has written for de Volkskrant, Trouw and De Groene Amsterdammer - commenting on topics as the Joint Strike Fighter program, the Russian military intervention in Ukraine and the recruiting practices of the Armed forces of the Netherlands. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Klep studied to become a teacher of English and history between 1982 and 1986. He subsequently went to Utrecht University, specializing in Eastern-European studies, Russian studies, contemporary history and international relations between 1986 and 1988. Afterwards he became a lecturer of history at same University, where he worked until 1992. [8]
Klep worked for the Dutch Institute for Military History of the Dutch Ministry of Defence from 1992 to 2000. [8] From 2000 to 2001 he worked for the Institute of Dutch History. Later he became a freelance historian and publicist. In 2006 he worked a semester as lecturer at University College Roosevelt. [8] [9]
In 2006 Klep returned to Utrecht University, where he was a lecturer and researcher until 2010. [8] He earned his doctorate on a study of three peace keeping missions in Somalia, Rwanda and Srebrenica. [9]
He currently is a lecturer at Utrecht University. [10]
In 2011 he disputed Thom Karremans account about not knowing about the impending genocide at Srebrenica (in 1995); Klep interviewed dozens of Karremans former troops [in Dutchbat III battalion]. [11]
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