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 | ROUNDTABLE: REMEMBERING SIR MICHAEL HOWARD (1922–2019) By Texas National Security Review
In 1967, the professor of war studies of King’s College London, then still an integral part of
the University of London, was invited to give the ninth Harmon Memorial Lecture in
Military History at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Ostensibly speaking about “Strategy and
Policy in 20th-Century Warfare,” the speaker, Michael Howard, used this occasion to make
a plug for widening military history to become more of a historiography of war. ...Read more > | 65 Pages 375.57 KB |
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 | THE HARMON MEMORIAL LECTURES IN MILITARY HISTORY, 1988–2017 By Lt Col Mark E. Grotelueschen, PhD, USAF, Retired
In the inaugural Harmon Memorial Lecture of 1959, appropriately entitled
“Why Military History?,” Professor Wesley Frank Craven discussed the unprecedented interest in military history that had arisen in the United States
during the two decades since the start of World War II. After noting that previous generations included “many reputable historians who argued that ...Read more > | 656 Pages 8.90 MB |
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 | MICHAEL HOWARD AND THE DIMENSIONS OF MILITARY HISTORY By Hew Strachan
In early 2002, Sir Lawrence Freedman invited me to deliver that year’s Liddell Hart Lecture at
King’s College London. Only after I had accepted, did he reveal that the invitation came with a
caveat: I had no choice as to the subject. I was to speak about Sir Michael Howard, whose 80th
birthday would fall on 29 November 2002, and the dimensions of military history. Freedman
thought this particularly appropriate because I had just taken up the Chichele Professorship of
the History of War ...Read more > | 16 Pages 102.41 KB |
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 | CONSIDERING WHY WE LOST By Tami Davis Biddle
In his high profile book, Why We Lost, Lieutenant General (Retired) Daniel Bolger argues the US Army stayed too long in the Afghanistan and Iraq theaters, becoming mired in wars it was illequipped to fight. ...Read more > | 4 Pages 134.74 KB |
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 | THE USE AND ABUSE OF MILITARY HISTORY By Professor Sir Michal Howard
This artice is based on a lecture by Professor Sir Michal Howard to the Royal United Service Institution on 18 oct 1961 and published in their journal No 107 in Feb ...Read more > | 5 Pages 198.16 KB |
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 | DOES MILITARY CULTURE MATTER ? By Williamson Murray
History with its grim landscape of defeated armies and shattered nations, would certainly suggest that military culture matters. But how and why that is so is not entirely ...Read more > | 9 Pages 56.48 KB |
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 | WHY MILITARY HISTORY By Josiah Bunting
"Military history" continued the speaker, since it deals with war, is unpopular, and probably more so today tham at any other ...Read more > | 6 Pages 76.61 KB |
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 | WHY MILITARY HISTORY MATTERS By Mark Grimsley
Of all fields history, military history is among the most popular. In most bookstores it is not uncommon for half the history section to be devoted to books about great commanders, campaigns, ...Read more > | 10 Pages 93.60 KB |
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 | A GUIDE TO THE STUDY AND USE OF MILTARY HISTORY By John E. Jessup
On 6 June 1944, as the allied forces began the invasion of Normandy, General George S. Patton. Jr. wrote to his son, then a cadet at United States Military Academy, that "to be a successful soldier, you must know ...Read more > | 13 Pages 945.55 KB |
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