" military history is irrelevant when making comments about whether a war was justified or not, military history only studies the minutiae of the conduct of the war, not the overarching social and moral themes."

The only people who can actually state whether a war is justified or not are those who actually did have to decide that - not people with no knowledge of event 100 years later armed with second hand disproven myths and 20 x 20 hindsight. The historians who research and study the period and the events examine the decisions reached and recorded by all parties involved to arrive at conclusions that either support or reject whether in their opinion the war was justified or not.

"Numerous have referred to him as such since his death, haven't they Terribums?"

Yes they did Raggytash, they waited because they knew they dare not say it to his face, they waited until he was dead before attempting to blacken his name. Lloyd George and Churchill did it to cover up and divert attention from their complicity in those errors and the errors they made off their own bat. I will detail those if you dou