M T Howard

Biographic Data

ID324329
NAMEM T Howard
GIVEN NAMESM T
FAMILY NAMEHoward
SIGNATUREHOWARD M T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oxford
ORCID0000-0002-1073-3932
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS132
TOTAL CITATIONS197
AUTHOR COUNT132
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1950
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX8

  • Response to Timothy L. Scarnecchia’s Review of Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army: Colonialism, Professionalism and Race

    Open AccessM T HowardARTICLEPerspectives on Politics2025

  • Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army: Colonialism, Professionalism, and Race

    Open AccessM T HowardBOOKBlack Soldiers in the Rhodesian…2024

    During Zimbabwe's war of liberation (1965–80), fought between Zimbabwean nationalists and the minority-white Rhodesian settler-colonial regime, thousands of black soldiers volunteered for and served in the Rhodesian Army. This seeming paradox has often been noted by scholars and military researchers, yet little has been heard from black Rhodesian veterans themselves. Drawing from original interviews with black Rhodesian veterans and extensive arc…

  • Fighting for Time: Rhodesia’s Military and Zimbabwe’s Independence by Charles D. Melson

    M T HowardARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2022

    A quarter of a century ago, in 1998, Eric T. Young published a review essay in Africa: Journal of the International African Institute in which he argued that a “general military history” of Zimbabwe's war of independence (1965–1980) “remains to be written.” This remains largely the case today, particularly because of the lack of available archival sources. Crucial materials in the Rhodesian archives were deliberately destroyed at the end of the w…

  • Allies of Expedience: The Retention of Black Rhodesian Soldiers in the Zimbabwe National Army

    M T HowardARTICLEJournal of Southern African Studies2022

    Utilising oral history interviews with black ex-Rhodesian soldiers and archival sources, this article contributes a new understanding as to why, at the moment of independence, the Zimbabwean government opted to retain black troops from the old Rhodesian Army, the wartime foe of its liberation forces. That these soldiers were integrated into the new Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) was striking for, although relatively small in number, they had proven…

  • The Rhodesian army, between facts and fiction

    M T HowardARTICLEJournal of Southern African Studies2021

    This is a captivating, enjoyable book, albeit one that induces melancholy upon turning the last page, for it reads like a valedictory text from an author who will be sorely missed in retirement. Lu

  • Complex Terrain: Megacities and the Changing Character of Urban Operations

    Open AccessColleen Borley, Henrik Ø Breitenbauch et al.BOOKComplex Terrain2019

    This edited volume, composed by military professionals in the Gray Scholars Program at Marine Corps University, describes the changing character of urban operations. The pattern of human settlement and interaction is changing and the future is urban. Because the majority of the world's population lives within cities, the future of strategic competition and conflict reside there as well. The density and connectivity of urban environments create a …

  • The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World

    M T Howard, Michael Howard et al.BOOKLaws of War2017

    This book explores not only the formal constraints on the conduct of war throughout Western history but also the unwritten conventions about what is permissible in the course of military operations. Ranging from classical antiquity to the present, eminent historians discuss the legal and cultural regulation of violence in such areas as belligerent rights, the treatment of prisoners and civilians, the observing of truces and immunities, the use of…

  • Varieties of risk regulation in Europe: Coordination, Complementarity and Occupational Safety in Capitalist Welfare States

    Open AccessHenry Rothstein, David Demeritt et al.ARTICLESocio-Economic Review2017Cited by: 7References: 14

    This article tests the extent to which the organization and stringency of occupational health and safety regulation complements the dominant mode of coordination in the political economy. While the UK explicitly sanctions risk-cost-benefit trade-offs, other European countries mandate ambitious safety goals. That contrast appears to reflect cleavages identified in the Varieties of Capitalism literature, which suggests worker protection regimes are…

  • Mobilizing Risk: Explaining Policy Transfer in Food and Occupational Safety Regulation in the UK

    Open AccessDavid Demeritt, Henry Rothstein et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2015Cited by: 10References: 44

    Using comparative methods of policy analysis, this paper explores the institutional factors shaping the transfer and adaptation of risk-based approaches to regulation within and between the regimes for occupational health and safety (OHS) and food safety in the UK. Over the past two decades successive governments have enthusiastically promoted risk as a key concept for regulatory reform and 'better regulation'. Rather than trying to prevent all p…

  • The Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France 1870–1871

    M T Howard, Michael HowardBOOKFranco-Prussian War2013

    In 1870 Bismarck ordered the Prussian Army to invade France, inciting one of the most dramatic conflicts in European history. It transformed not only the states-system of the Continent but the whole climate of European moral and political thought. The overwhelming triumph of German military might, evoking general admiration and imitation, introduced an era of power politics, which was to reach its disastrous climax in 1914. First published in 196…

  • History, Tragedy and Farce

    M T Howard, Michael HowardARTICLESurvival2009

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael Howard Michael Howard is President Emeritus of the International Institute for Strategic Studies

  • Military power and international order

    Open AccessM T Howard, Michael HowardARTICLEInternational Affairs2009Cited by: 1

    ‘“Military power ... remains an instrument with which no state has yet found it possible completely to dispense”. So writes Michael Howard in discussing military power and international order’. In a time when abstracts did not precede articles in International Afairs, this was how the then Editor, N. p. MacDonald, introduced Michael Howard's article, ‘Military power and international order’, originally published in volume 40: 3, July 1964 and rep…

  • Present at the Creation

    M T Howard, Michael HowardARTICLESurvival2008

  • Are We At War

    M T Howard, Michael HowardARTICLESurvival2008Cited by: 1

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael HowardMichael Howard is President Emeritus of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. This essay was presented as the 2008 Alastair Buchan Memorial Lecture at the IISS, London, on 6 April 2008

  • Securing a Place: Small-Scale Artisans in Modern Indonesia

    Mariah Howard, M T Howard et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Issues in…2008

  • A Long War

    M T Howard, Michael HowardARTICLESurvival2006Cited by: 5

    When, in the immediate aftermath of the appalling events of 11 September 2001, President George W. Bush declared a ‘global war on terror’, a number of pundits were deeply unhappy. At least the Pentagon has adjusted its language and now defines the West's predicament as ‘a long war’. This is better, but still problems remain: is it really a ‘war’, and if not, what is it? Who or what is it against? What is it about? How should it be conducted? What…

  • The Cambridge History of Warfare

    M T Howard, M HowardARTICLEThe English Historical Review2006Cited by: 2

    This is, as one might expect from the expertise of the contributors, a highly competent survey of warfare from the Greek hoplites to the contemporary so-called Revolution in Warfare. Victor Davis Hanson covers war in classical antiquity, Bernard H. Bachrach the millennium from 300 to 1300, Christopher Allmand the middle ages, Geoffrey Parker himself the early modern period, John Lynn Europe from 1660 to 1815, and Williamson Murray the nineteenth …

  • The Official History of the Falklands Campaign

    M T Howard, Michael HowardARTICLEThe English Historical Review2006Cited by: 13

    The Official History of the Falklands Campaign. By LAWRENCE FREEDMAN (London: Routledge, 2005. 2 vols.: pp. xiv + 253; xxx + 849. £49.95). OFFICIAL Histories seldom receive the respect that they deserve. Professional academics suspect their impartiality: their authors, they fear, in return for their privileged access to otherwise unavailable sources, may have sold out to an Establishment with much to conceal, and paid an unacceptable price in imp…

  • Boulanger, Louis(-Candide)

    M T Howard, Michael HowardCHAPTER2003

  • Chifflart, François(-Nicolas)

    M T Howard, Michael HowardCHAPTER2003

  • The German Offensives of 1918

    M T Howard, M HowardARTICLEThe English Historical Review2002

    1University of Oxford The German Offensives of 1918 MartinKitchen StroudTempus 2001284£25

  • What's in a Name? How to Fight Terrorism

    M T Howard, Michael HowardARTICLEForeign Affairs2002Cited by: 6

    When, in the immediate aftermath of the September 1i attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Secretary of State Colin Powell declared that the United States was with terrorism, he made a very natural but terrible and irrevocable error. Administration leaders have been trying to put it right ever since. What Powell said made sense if one uses the term against in the sense of a war against crime or against drug trafficking: that is, the…

  • The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order

    John Whiteclay Chambers, John Whiteclay Chambers II et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Military History2001

  • The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order

    G John Ikenberry, M T Howard et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs2001Cited by: 13

    sustantivo invencion ha estado de moda en las ciencias sociales estas ultimas decadas. Llego asimismo a la historia y a los estudios internacionales. Tiene que ver con la perspectiva constructivista, que sostiene que todo lo que damos por producto natural ha sido construido como respuesta a desafios de magnitud que encuentra el hombre a lo largo de la historia. No solo las ideas y las percepciones habrian sido inventadas, sino que aquellas instit…

  • An Unhappy Successful Marriage: Security Means Knowing What to Expect

    M T Howard, Michael HowardARTICLEForeign Affairs1999Cited by: 2