Navy Moves to Ban Confederate Flags on Bases, Ships and Public Spaces The Navy's top admiral is following the Marine Corps' lead in banning the Confederate battle flag.
The Army Will Consider Renaming Bases that Honor Confederate Leaders The Army secretary is open to changing the names of 10 Army bases that were named for Confederate leaders.
From Bumper Stickers to T-Shirts, Confederate Flags Now Officially Off-Limits for Marines Marines got the order to remove all items featuring the Confederate battle flag from public areas Friday night as protests...
History Channel's 'Grant' Is a Timely Reminder of Which General Actually Won the Civil War Fans of Robert E. Lee might want to learn a bit more about the general who won the war.
Top Marine Orders Confederate Paraphernalia to Be Removed from All Bases The commandant's order came about a week after a congressional hearing on the rise of extremism in the ranks.
West Point Finally Getting Statue of Gen. Ulysses Grant, Class of 1843 The U.S. Military Academy will unveil its first statue of Grant, the 18th president, on Thursday.
Civil War Vets Wanted to Invade Canada to Liberate Ireland By 1860, there were more than 1.6 million people of Irish descent who called themselves American – and upwards of 175,000 of...
President Trump's Civil War History Most Americans dozed through their high school American history classes, so many of us could use a refresher on the details.
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-Forty-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...
![](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2020-05/USGrant2100.jpg?itok=5rBlYb4p "Justin Salinger plays General Ulysses S. Grant in "Grant." (History)")
!["On to Richmond" by the artist Mort Kunstler. The painting depicts Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant on the field during the Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, May 5-7, 1864. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army War College/Megan Clugh)](http://images05.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2019-04/ulysses-grant-painting-1800.jpg?itok=8-nIavCB ""On to Richmond" by the artist Mort Kunstler. The painting depicts Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant on the field during the Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, May 5-7, 1864. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army War College/Megan Clugh)")
