History (Page 5)

Military history: Battles, campaigns, turning points, and the stories of those who served across every era.

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RED Friday returns as combat deployments ramp up

By Adam Gramegna

The XM8 is back, but not in the way you might remember it

By Miguel Ortiz

How a Navy veteran basically invented the sports drink industry

By Stephen Ruiz

How the daring rescue of 3 Army soldiers after a WWII plane crash in ‘Shangri-La’ unfolded

By Friedrich Seiltgen

The 13 scariest dictators the world has ever known

By Brittany Sulc

Why the Union wore blue and the Confederacy gray during the Civil War

The new dime design has no olive branch and people are up in arms over it

By Blake Stilwell

The US Army’s ‘Cattle Truck’ was the worst ride you’ll never forget

By Adam Gramegna

A Marine Corps general led a fictional Iran against the US military—and won

By Blake Stilwell

6 things to know about the Sentinels guarding Arlington’s Tomb of the Unknowns

Operation Tapeworm: How the US Army’s most elite hunted down Saddam’s sons

By Friedrich Seiltgen

Why Genghis Khan and the Mongols were the most-feared army of all time

By Bethaney Phillips

The world’s shortest war lasted an incredibly brief 38 minutes

By Stephen Ruiz

The Space Force was fighting Iran before the first F-35 took off

By Adam Gramegna

Why the Coast Guard is part of the Department of Homeland Security

By Stephen Ruiz

The WWII bombardier whose family spent 12 years bringing him home from the ocean floor

By Stephen Ruiz

This is what a broom tied to a mast means in the US Navy

The complete guide to West Point

By Jessica Evans

Here’s what’s actually inside the nuclear football

By Daniel Tobias Flint

8 of the most terrifying Vietnam War booby traps

By Blake Stilwell

The history of American-Iranian relations is a lesson in unintended consequences

By Daniel Tobias Flint

What John Glenn did to save his famous wingman’s life in Korea

By Stephen Ruiz

What happens if you try to touch the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

By Blake Stilwell

‘The Iron Major’: James Capers Jr.’s long road to the Medal of Honor

By Daniel Tobias Flint

A sailor painted a 42-foot mural inside an aircraft carrier. The colors are still vivid 3 miles underwater, 80 years later.

By Daniel Tobias Flint

How John Brown’s raid on the arsenal at Harper’s Ferry made the Civil War inevitable

By Daniel Tobias Flint

How Kuwait’s air defenses downed three American F-15 Strike Eagles

By Adam Gramegna

How Eisenhower’s ‘Atoms for Peace’ initiative started Iran’s nuclear program

By Stephen Ruiz

Operation Eagle Claw: The story behind the failed hostage rescue in Iran

By Blake Stilwell

How the Marine Corps’ oldest division survived at Chosin Reservoir

By Stephen Ruiz

Revolutionary War

The anonymous plot to oust George Washington as commander-in-chief

By Daniel Tobias Flint

This plane survived Pearl Harbor and struck back at Midway

By Miguel Ortiz

The Allies refused to buy American surplus after WWII so US troops pushed it into the ocean

By Bethaney Phillips

The real story of Jane Fonda and the Vietnam vets who hate her

By Blake Stilwell

How a sailor remembered 256 prisoners of war through song

By Blake Stilwell

How a soldier’s homemade US flag made it from a WWII POW camp to the Smithsonian

By Stephen Ruiz

The shortest soldier in American history was a Green Beret who fought in Vietnam

By Blake Stilwell

The highest ranking US military officer in World War II isn’t who you think

By Blake Stilwell

Remembering 250 years of Marine Corps Commandants

By Daniel Tobias Flint

An Army pilot shot three times during the Maduro Raid just received the Medal of Honor

By Blake Stilwell

This WWII aviation program was more expensive than the Manhattan Project

By Miguel Ortiz

The first Medals of Honor received for a foreign conflict happened in Korea

By Blake Stilwell

How a trip underwater propelled Teddy Roosevelt to improve submariners’ pay

By Stephen Ruiz

That time MacArthur promised to capture a hill or die on it

How I teach the rise of dictators and America’s uneasy road to World War II

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Patton’s famous speech was way more vulgar than the one in the movie

By Blake Stilwell

This Marine survived the Bataan Death March, a ship sinking, and an atomic bomb

By Stephen Ruiz

How the Seven Days Battles lengthened the Civil War by 2 years

The time the US offered $100 million in gold to buy Greenland

By Stephen Ruiz

Operation Highjump was one of the military’s coldest missions to date

By Bethaney Phillips

The Yellow Footprints: The Marine Corps Educators Workshop

By Daniel Tobias Flint

When the Army barred men from serving as nurses, they fought back and won

By Joanna Guldin

Revolutionary War

Baron von Steuben and the birth of US Army discipline

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Teddy Roosevelt is the reason for military PT tests

By Blake Stilwell

A World War II POW who defied Nazis to protect Jewish soldiers will receive the Medal of Honor

By Blake Stilwell

Revolutionary War

Benedict Arnold and the most famous betrayal in American history

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Captain America and the boldest punch in American pop culture

By Daniel Tobias Flint

Curtis LeMay: World War II bomber, cold warrior, and judo champion

By Blake Stilwell

7 interesting facts about US presidents and their military service

By Stephen Ruiz

Revolutionary War

Revolutionary War uniforms and the birth of an American army

By Daniel Tobias Flint

The mathematician who saved hundreds of flight crews during World War II

President Lincoln personally led a recon mission during the Civil War

By Daniel Tobias Flint

What the Soviet Union thought as it watched Operation Desert Storm

By Blake Stilwell

How a single Viking’s berserker rage changed world history forever

By Blake Stilwell