Since the key name "host" is slightly misleading, it would help to point out in this documentation, that in fact an URL is required for that key/value pair "host" in the tower-cli config. Failing to do so drops the follwing error:
Error: There was a network error of some kind trying to connect to Tower.
The most common reason for this is a settings issue; is your "host" value in `tower-cli config` correct?