Michael Howard
Michael Howard (1922–2019) was a British military historian and formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, Honorary Fellow of All Souls College, and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University. He was also Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University, and the founder of the Department of War Studies at King's College, London. He cofounded the International Institute for Strategic Studies in 1958. The author of many highly regarded books, Howard was described in the Financial Times as "Britain's greatest living historian," and by the Guardian as "Britain's foremost expert on conflict."