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military history

field of history concerned with the military and warfare
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Summary

military history is an academic discipline[1]. It draws 2,356 Wikipedia views per month (academic discipline category, ranking #124 of 1,010).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: academic major[3], branch of history[4]
  • Subclass of: study of history[5], aspect of history[6]
  • Commons category: Military history[7]
  • Has part(s): post-war[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Military history[9]
  • Described by source: Sytin Military Encyclopedia[10], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[13]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://history.stackexchange.com/tags/military[14]
  • Has characteristic: cultural history of the military[15]
  • Classification of Instructional Programs code: 54.0108[16]
  • Is the study of: war[17]
  • Practiced by: military historian[18]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[19]

Why It Matters

military history has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

Related Entities

Antony Beevor Army History B. H. Liddell Hart Igor Girkin Lukáš Víšek Margaret Atwood Martin Cieslar Pavel Hrnčiřík

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · Samoasambia · 2026-09-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  2. 7w ago · Bouzinac · 2026-09-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → history-military, military-history
    Has part(s) → post-war
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  3. 13w ago · Chalmd · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Sytin Military Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +2
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  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Practiced by → military historian
    Instance of → academic discipline, academic major, branch of history
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Is the study of → war
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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