Colonel
Philip Howes, OBE
Colonel Philip Howes has been a member of Defence and
Security Forum since 1985. He was Chairman from 1997 to 2002. Treasurer
and Trustee from September 2002.
Colonel
Howes was educated at Eastbourne College, and commissioned into the
Royal Artillery from Sandhurst in 1956. He qualified as an
Instructor-in-Gunnery in 1962 and is a graduate of The Staff College,
Camberley, and the National Defence College, Latimer.
In over thirty years in the
Army Colonel Howes saw active service in Cyprus, Jordan, Malaya,
Northern Ireland and some Gulf States. He also served at regimental
duty in England and Germany, where he was Adjutant of 24 Missile
Regiment. He held senior staff appointments at Headquarters, British
Army on the Rhine and in the Ministry of Defence, both on the Central
Operations Staff and in the Army Department.
From 1978 to 1981 he was
responsible for managing the budget for the Army’s new equipment
programme and was appointed OBE for this service. During the Falklands
War he was on the central planning staff and a member of the War
Cabinet briefing team. At the end of that war he was promoted to head
the Army Department branch responsible for planning the logistic
support of all Army operations worldwide, and in this capacity devised
and brought into service the seaborne logistic system which supported
the Falklands garrison until the permanent build was complete.
He left the Army to market
the ‘Instant Harbour’ system worldwide making successful
project proposals to the US Department of Defence and the Government of
Indonesia.
Since
1994 Colonel Howes has written, spoken and broadcast on related themes
of Defence and Military History. In 1998 he published "The Catalytic
Wars – a Study of the Development of Warfare between 1860 and
1870". He also published a series of magazine articles about the
subsequent careers of the senior French commanders in the Crimean War.
In his
capacity as Chairman of Defence and Security Forum he spoke in two
defence debates at the Conservative Party conference, debated nuclear
disarmament at both the Oxford Union and Cambridge Union, and appeared
on BBC TV Newsnight, It’s Your Shout and other television and
radio programmes.
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DSF Executive
Lady Olga
Maitland
President (Biography)
Rt.Hon. Lord Mayhew of
Twysden
Vice President (Biography)
Major General Patrick Cordingley
Chairman (Biography)
Colonel Philip Howes,
OBE
Treasurer and Trustee
Honorary Patrons
Rt.
Hon Lord Nazir Ahmed of Rotherham
Rt.
Hon. Baroness Blatch CBE
Baroness
Cox
Sir
Ranulph Fiennes Bt
General
Sir Michael Gow GCB
Rt
Hon. The Earl of Lauderdale
Rt.
Hon. Lord Lamont of Lerwick
Sir
Alfred Sherman
Professor
Norman Stone
Rt.
Hon. Sir John Wheeler, JP, DL
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