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MILITARY HISTORY, PUBLISHED AND CONNECTED.
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208Complete 2026 Articles
4Active Editorial Lanes
561Dated Tuesday Entries
123Companion Infographics
208Companion Audio Links
Weekly Field Schedule
FOUR COMPLETE ARCHIVES. ONE CONNECTED PUBLICATION.
Each editorial lane keeps its own identity while sharing one searchable archive, permanent article pages, and reciprocal Wiki links.
MondayBeyond the CallThursdayLiving History
Medal of Honor stories placed back into their battlefield setting.
52 articles → TuesdayThis Week in HistoryA weekly calendar of anniversaries, turning points, and remembered moments.
52 articles → WednesdayHeadline WednesdayLong-form features on campaigns, battles, commanders, and pivotal decisions.
52 articles → FridayThe ArsenalWeapons, platforms, technology, doctrine, crews, and sustainment in action.
52 articles →2026 Publication Archive
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Showing 24 of 52 articlesThis Week in History
Issue 52 · 12 min read
This Week in History December 29th, 2026 – January 4th, 2027
From December 29th, 2026 through January 4th, 2027, the calendar links moments of crisis, adaptation, and transformation across United States military history.
Issue 51 · 9 min read
This Week in History December 22nd, 2026 – December 28th, 2026
From December 22nd, 2026 through December 28th, 2026, the calendar lines up with a week crowded with turning points in United States military history.
Issue 50 · 10 min read
This Week in History December 15th, 2026 – December 21st, 2026
From December 15th, 2026 through December 21st, 2026, the calendar lines up with some of the most consequential weeks in United States military history.
Issue 49 · 8 min read
This Week in History December 8th, 2026 – December 14th, 2026
From December 8th, 2026 through December 14th, 2026, the calendar lines up with some of the most consequential moments in United States military history.
Issue 48 · 11 min read
This Week in History December 1st, 2026 – December 7th, 2026
From December 1st, 2026 through December 7th, 2026, the calendar is thick with moments that reshaped the way the United States thinks about war, peace, and service.
Issue 47 · 9 min read
This Week in History November 24th, 2026 – November 30th, 2026
From November 24th, 2026 through November 30th, 2026, the calendar links a series of moments when United States arms, diplomacy, and conscience were all tested.
Issue 46 · 11 min read
This Week in History November 17th, 2026 – November 23rd, 2026
From November 17th, 2026 through November 23rd, 2026, the calendar lines up with a series of moments when American arms, ideas, and institutions faced hard tests.
Issue 45 · 9 min read
This Week in History November 10th, 2026 – November 16th, 2026
From November 10th, 2026 through November 16th, 2026, the calendar lines up with a series of anniversaries that trace the long arc of American arms.
Issue 44 · 9 min read
This Week in History November 3rd, 2026 – November 9th, 2026
From November 3rd, 2026 through November 9th, 2026, the calendar links frontier skirmishes, blue-water fleets, Cold War walls, and house-to-house fighting in the Middle East.
Issue 43 · 9 min read
This Week in History October 27th, 2026 – November 2nd, 2026
From October 27th, 2026 through November 2nd, 2026, the calendar links trench lines outside Petersburg, destroyers in the North Atlantic, Marines wading ashore in the Solomons, and bomber crews orbiting on nuclear alert.
Issue 42 · 8 min read
This Week in History October 20th, 2026 – October 26th, 2026
From October 20th, 2026 through October 26th, 2026, the calendar lines up with some of the most consequential moments in United States military history.
Issue 41 · 8 min read
This Week in History October 13th, 2026 – October 19th, 2026
From October 13th, 2026 through October 19th, 2026, the calendar links today’s readers to moments when the United States military helped shape the course of a young republic, preserved a divided union, confronted global enemies…
Issue 40 · 9 min read
This Week in History October 6th, 2026 – October 12th, 2026
From October 6th, 2026 through October 12th, 2026, the calendar links us to moments when American sailors, soldiers, airmen, and Marines faced decisions that reshaped both campaigns and institutions.
Issue 39 · 9 min read
This Week in History September 29th, 2026 – October 5th, 2026
From September 29th, 2026 through October 5th, 2026, the calendar brings us back to battlefields, command posts, and city streets where American service members tested themselves in war and in uneasy peace.
Issue 38 · 8 min read
This Week in History September 22nd, 2026 – September 28th, 2026
From September 22nd, 2026 through September 28th, 2026, the calendar brings us back to a series of moments when the United States was still deciding what kind of nation it would be in war and in peace.
Issue 37 · 11 min read
This Week in History September 15th, 2026 – September 21st, 2026
From September 15th, 2026 through September 21st, 2026, the calendar links moments of crisis, adaptation, and transformation across American arms.
Issue 36 · 11 min read
This Week in History September 8th, 2026 – September 14th, 2026
From September 8th, 2026 through September 14th, 2026, the calendar touches some of the most consequential hinges in United States military history.
Issue 35 · 10 min read
This Week in History September 1st, 2026 – September 7th, 2026
From September 1st, 2026 through September 7th, 2026, the calendar lines up with a remarkably rich run of moments in United States military history.
Issue 34 · 9 min read
This Week in History August 25th, 2026 – August 31st, 2026
From August 25th, 2026 through August 31st, 2026, the calendar links moments that stretch from the Revolutionary War to the close of America’s longest conflict.
Issue 33 · 9 min read
This Week in History August 18th, 2026 – August 24th, 2026
From August 18th, 2026 through August 24th, 2026, the calendar brings us back to moments when American arms, policy, and geography all shifted in important ways.
Issue 32 · 9 min read
This Week in History August 11th, 2026 – August 17th, 2026
From August 11th, 2026 through August 17th, 2026, the calendar carries echoes of American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines fighting, failing, learning, and ultimately reshaping the world around them.
Issue 31 · 12 min read
This Week in History August 4th, 2026 – August 10th, 2026
From August 4th, 2026 through August 10th, 2026, the calendar links moments of American service that stretch from the Revolutionary War encampments on the Hudson to armored columns rolling into the Arabian desert.
Issue 30 · 10 min read
This Week in History July 28th, 2026 – August 3rd, 2026
Late July and early August have often found American service members in hard, hot places, from Midwestern river bluffs to the burning decks of carriers off Vietnam.
Issue 29 · 11 min read
This Week in History July 21st, 2026 – July 27th, 2026
From July 21st, 2026 through July 27th, 2026, the United States military calendar brings together a striking range of anniversaries.
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