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Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne CH PC KC (born Michael Hecht; 7 July 1941) is a British politician who was Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005.
Fellow of the Academy. Michael Howard was a military historian who established war studies as a fit subject for university study. He founded the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London in 1962. In 1968 he returned to Oxford, where had read history, to take up a Fellowship at All Souls.
He met A J P Taylor, Arthur Koestler, Michael Flanders, Guy Burgess, Humphrey Lyttelton, Rab Butler, E M Forster, Cyril Connolly and Ralph Richardson, as recounted in Captain Professor, his mortar-to-mortarboard memoir published thirteen years ago.
1 dic 2019 · Michael Howard, an eminent military historian and decorated combat veteran who helped redefine the chronicling of conflict between states and pioneered a so-called “English school” of strategic...
They illustrate Sir Michael’s role in the Institute’s creation and his abiding presence in its evolving intellectual life, and serve as a historical document, tracing the development of strategic thought and preoccupations from the 1950s to the recent past.
17 dic 2019 · Lawrence Freedman, a former student and colleague of Michael Howard, pays tribute to his mentor and friend. He recounts how Howard influenced his career and approach to the study of war, and shares some personal anecdotes about his life and work.
24 feb 2020 · For this special roundtable, we asked our contributors to discuss the life and work of Sir Michael Howard, and specifically his 1967 lecture at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
