How do you become a military historian?

Question

I always hear the phrase: "Do what you love." Well, I love history and I love studying warfare. How exactly can I turn this into a career?

Answer 1

Study history in college and earn advanced degrees.

I love history, too; I switched my major from engineering to history as an undergraduate. Now I am a graduate student in history, two semesters from finishing my MA.

I want to go back to teaching high school, but most of my class mates are going onto a doctoral program.

If you want to be a military historian, I would suggest that you work towards a Ph.D in history.

Answer 2

As the previous two have stated, go onto university and do history as your major, with possibly politics as a minor plus one or two languages (help with translating foreign documents). As you are interested in military history I would also go onto doing a Masters and a PhD. You did not say what military history you are interested in. US, British, Australian, New Zealand or that of another country. A person can spend an entire life researching the military history of one country although they need some general knowledge of the "enemy's" history and that of their allies.

Answer 3

I would go for a History degree with a Political Science minor.

Answer 4

to make it a career, if you have writing skills, write and send your sample write ups to publishers and newspapers... if you land a column, then you are on the roll for a career in history... good luck...