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The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters Volume 11 Number 1 Parameters 1981 Article 16 7-4-1981 THE USE AND ABUSE OF MILITARY HISTORY Michael Howard
20 mar 2008 · In this lecture of 1961, Michael Howard assesses the uses and abuses of the study of military history from the perspectives of both the academic historian and the practising soldier. While acknowledging past tendencies to mythogise national achievements out of often misguided notions of patriotism, as well as difficulties involving evidence, he ...
Abstract. ‘Military history’ can be simply defined as the history of armed forces and the conduct of war, and for many years it was a discrete, finite, specialist study. In the United Kingdom it emerged during the eighteenth century, with studies of Marlborough’s wars on the continent and of what were genetically described as ‘the wars ...
Michael was an Olympian figure, and even – as Maurice Pearton once put it to me – ‘vice-regal’. The lecture was delivered on 3 December 2002 in the Great Hall at King’s, and Michael ...
4 ott 2023 · National security practitioners should study military history in width, depth, and context.[1] That was the opinion of Sir Michael Howard, one of the greatest military historians of the twentieth century, a founder of influential think tanks and policy journals, and an advisor to generals, admirals, and ministers in Cold War London.[2]
Professor Sir Michael Howard 18 The Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin F or military historians with backgrounds as professional soldiers, the idea of military history having a “use” is a perfectly natural one. They would hardly have taken to historical studies if they had not held it. But the historian who
30 lug 1992 · The volume is dedicated to Sir Michael Howard, formerly Regius Professor of History in the University of Oxford. The broad scope of the work reflects the nature of Sir Michael's scholarship over a long and distinguished career. Keywords: Sir Michael Howard, across the Atlantic, prolific writer, imagined, Strategic Studies.
