Michael Howard

Academic career After Oxford, Howard began his teaching career at King's College London, where he helped to found the Department of War Studies. From his position at King's he was one of Britain's most influential figures in developing strategic studies as a discipline that brought together government, military, and academia to think about defence and national security more broadly and deeply than had been done before. Assistant Lecturer in History (1947), Lecturer (1950–3), Reader in War Studies and finally Professor of War Studies (1953–63), King's College London.

He was one of the founders of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Historical writing Howard was best known for expanding military history beyond the traditional campaigns and battles accounts to include wider discussions about the sociological significance of war. Howard helped found the Department of War Studies and the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College London. He was president emeritus of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, which he also helped to establish, and a fellow of the British Academy. He was later appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) for services to military studies in the 2002 Birthday Honours and to the Order of Merit (OM) in 2005. In 1988 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences. In 1992, he was awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement given by the Society for Military History.

Work The Coldstream Guards, co-written with John Sparrow, 1920–1946, 1951. Disengagement in Europe, 1958. The Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France, 1870–1871, 1961. Republished by Methuen, 1981. Lord Haldane and the Territorial Army, 1967. The Mediterranean Strategy in the Second World War, 1967. Grand Strategy, August 1942 – September 1943, Volume IV, Grand Strategy series, History of the Second World War (1970) Studies in War and Peace, 1970. The Continental Commitment: The Dilemma of British Defence Policy in the Era of Two World Wars, 1972. War in European History, 1976 [latest revised edition, 2009]. Carl von Clausewitz, On War, 1977, edited and translated by M. E. Howard and Peter Paret. Soldiers and Governments: Nine Studies in Civil Military Relations, 1978. War and the Liberal Conscience, 1978 [new edition, 2008]. Restraints on War: Studies in the Limitation of Armed Conflict, 1979 edited by M. E. Howard. Clausewitz, 1983 [originally a volume in the Oxford University Press "Past Masters" series, reissued in 2000 as Clausewitz: A Very Short Introduction]. The Causes of War Harvard University Press; 2 edition (1 January 1984) Strategic Deception, 1990, (Volume 5 of British Intelligence in the Second World War; series edited by F. H. Hinsley; HMSO). The Lessons of History, 1991. The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World, 1994 edited by M. E Howard, George J. Andrepoulous and Mark R. Schulman. The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order, 2000.

The First World War, 2003 [reissued as The First World War: A Very Short Introduction, 2007]. Captain Professor: A Life in War and Peace (autobiography), 2006 Liberation or Catastrophe? Reflections on the History of the 20th Century, 2007 Fighting with Pride LGBT in the Armed Forces, chapter 4, 2019 edited by Craig Jones