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Sir Michael Eliot Howard (Ashmore, 29 novembre 1922 – 30 novembre 2019) è stato uno storico britannico, già titolare della cattedra "Chichele" di storia militare, socio emerito dell'All Souls College, regio professore di storia moderna presso l'Università di Oxford, titolare della cattedra "Robert A. Lovett" di storia militare e navale dell'Università Yale e fondatore del Dipartimento di ...
1 nov 2020 · In 1959, Sir James Butler invited Michael Howard to take on the writing of volume 4. of the Grand Strategy series in the official history of the Second W orld W ar. If the First. W orld W ar was ...
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 ...
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 ...
24 giu 2006 · Michael Howard 1. It’s the steady force‐feeding of the same old horse pills of history. An anonymous naval captain 2. In his essay on ‘The Use and Abuse of Military History’, Professor Sir Michael Howard highlighted the problems of drawing from history and either failing to heed the lessons, or drawing the wrong ones.
In a lecture given to the Royal United Services Institute on the 18th. October 1961, historian Michael Howard effectively explains some of the pitfalls of studying and. applying history and the extent of history’s usefulness.2. Howard expresses scepticism about uses of history and the propensity of historians to use history for.
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]
