[1] Howze is recognized as the intellectual force behind the concept of air-mobility and current United States Army Aviation doctrine.

[1] In 1961, as Chairman of the Tactical Mobility Requirements Board, Howze led the development in airmobile theory and doctrine.

Its revolutionary concepts – based on the use of aviation – changed American military attitudes in a similar manner to the way the tank affected ideas on mobility 50 years earlier.

These divisions, which adhered to the fundamentals of Howze's airmobility doctrine, went on to provide mobile and combined arms capabilities that are required in today's ground combat conditions.

In October 1962, he assumed command of the armed forces deployed to support the enrolment of James Meredith at the segregated University of Mississippi.

[1] Howze remained active after leaving the army and became an executive and consultant for Bell Helicopter in Fort Worth.