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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.
From September 8th, 2026 through September 14th, 2026, the calendar touches some of the most consequential hinges in United States military history.
Ukraine, 2022–Present
Weekly Medal of Honor profiles from the current 2026 edition.
Long-form narrated military-history features from the current 2026 Dispatch edition.
A story of all-weather strike power and low-level courage told through the aircrews who flew deep into defended skies.
A story of persistent firepower and improvisation, told through the aircrews who circled in the dark and the convoys trying to slip past them.
A story of layered air defense and digital command told through the sailors and crises that made Aegis indispensable.
A story of speed, firepower, and improvisation told through the pilots, gunners, and grunts who depended on the first dedicated United States attack helicopter.
A story of night-hunting firepower and battlefield reach told through the crews who flew it into the dark.
When Alaska entered the Union as the forty-ninth state on January 3rd, 1959, it brought with it a vast expanse of territory that had already played an important strategic role in the Second World War.
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Pacific war.
In Vietnam’s Central Highlands, the fighting around the Ia Drang Valley marked one of the first large-scale clashes between American airmobile forces and North Vietnamese regulars.
Less than a year later on the calendar, December 1st, 1918, American troops of the newly designated occupation forces began crossing into Germany itself.
Early in the Korean War, United Nations forces clung to a shrinking perimeter around Pusan while North Korean troops pressed hard along the front.
On July 7th, 1898, as the United States waged war against Spain, Congress approved a joint resolution to annex the Hawaiian Islands. American sugar interests and political figures in Hawaii had pushed for closer ties for years, but the Spanish–American War threw the strategic value of the islands into sharp relief.
In the early Cold War, the United States joined with Australia and New Zealand to sign a mutual security pact known as the ANZUS treaty.
On November 11th, 1918, guns along the Western Front at last fell silent as the armistice between the Allies and Germany took effect at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.