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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Explorers. Generals. Dictators. Tactics. Training methods. Whatever your interest, our reviewer has you covered.

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 ...

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.

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’s DEI purge seen putting its future — and its history — at risk Many Pentagon materials now labeled as "DEI" were a bit more like advertisements — aimed at recruits who have shown ...

He made rear admiral on June 1, 1951, and in 1952 he served as commander of the Military Sea Transportation Service, Pacific Area, based at San Francisco, California. He retired as a vice admiral ...

It was heavy with anti-military, anti-war sentiment, evoking the zeitgeist of a Vietnam-exhausted populace. “War isn’t Hell,” Hawkeye Pierce, played by Alan Alda, says in a typical line.

The deletion of photos, video and other content is part of an order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that all the military services eliminate online material not allowed by the Trump administration.