I too am a great admirer of Wilfred Owen, so much so there is a direct complete line quote from him in a song I wrote that is in the Songbook !!
I find with Kipling that it is easy to laugh at his patriotism and Jingoistic style but he was "in and of his time" and it is hard to keep the context straight.. he has however written some of the most(IMHO) memorable poetry of the 19/20 century!!
He was a Journalist in India during the Empire and used his journalists interviewing and note taking to record and then write his stories.. and damned good reading they are, if you can remember and accept the context in which he wrote.