Our Degree Path to Military History

In 2001, after four years being a college dropout we went back to school.

Rather than return to our former university we did something which in 2001 was entirely new. We went to school online. We enrolled in American Military University (now American Public University). This wasn't a college in the traditional sense, which we didn't want to do (and will never to again for any reason whatsoever) and we could study military history.

Online school in 2001 was a radical idea. How radical?  Napster was still a thing. We completed our BA on a dial-up modem.

In our case we majored in Land Warfare.

That first semester these included:

-Introduction to Military History
-Ancient Warfare
-Medieval Warfare

We studied the wars of  the Egyptians, the Ancient Greeks and Romans and Alexander, William the Conqueror, the Swiss Pikes, and on and on. It was fun.

In the second semester we took Gunpowder Warfare.This meant a lot of Marlborough and Napoleon. We also took The Wars of the Ancient Greeks. Of course we took German Military History. This started with Frederick the Great, the Prussians vs Napoleon, Moltke and the General Staff, and the World Wars.

We were also lucky enough to do a couple of independent studies, one exclusivity on Medieval Warfare that produced a 15,000 word paper that we will publish next year.

One winter morning in 2002 Professor Brian Todd Carey gave me an 'A' on my paper and suggested I submit it to a history magazine.

We've been submitting ever since.