History Detectives Tips Start your search with a trip to the National Archives website for helpful tips and useful links. Many military divisions have strong alumni groups on the web.

Perez was also the first Black female officer in US military history to die in combat after she was killed in action while leading a convoy in Iraq in 2006.

Key Points – The Nazi German MG 42, introduced in 1942, was a fearsome 7.92x57mm Mauser general-purpose machine gun renowned for its devastatingly high rate of fire (1,200-1,800 rpm) and ...

The military parade to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary and its convergence with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday are combining to create a peacetime outlier in U.S. history. Yet it still ...

Updated at 11:21 a.m. ET on February 15, 2023. Commentators on the Ukraine war who think that American support for Ukraine is pointless or dangerous commonly reach for references to military history.

This article expands and updates a June 2020 article. Although the National Guard has often been used against civil rebellion, deploying federal military forces within the U.S. is a drastic and ...

Michael O’Hanlon is right to ask us to learn “The Lessons of Military History” (Review, Jan. 28). But his request to teach military history “in its own right,” with a focus on strategies ...

Thomas E. Ricks, the Book Review’s military history columnist, is the author of eight books, including “Waging a Good War: How the Civil Rights Movement Won Its Battles, 1954-1968.” ...

Military history. The Middle Ages Had Horses. We Have Computer Chips. Three new books about the history of warfare have much to tell us. Share full article. By Thomas E. Ricks. April 27, 2023.

The museum — officially the Post 6249 Rocky Point Veterans of Foreign Wars World War II and Military History Museum — is scheduled to open Dec. 7, the 82nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl ...

JAMESTOWN — A time-honored local military history event turns 40 this year, and there will be plenty of fanfare to celebrate the milestone. The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation will be hosting its ...