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A selection of major topics is given for each archive; discussions of narrow or ephemeral interest are not listed.

1. October 2002–December 2003: original discussion; battle taxobox.
2. August 2003–November 2004: old taxobox instructions; military operations; color schemes; battlebox images; naming conventions; categories; image captions; infobox for battles; battle before/battle after.
3. December 2004–July 2005: Pacific campaign; warbox; battles versus operations; battle categories; ugly battleboxes.
4. August–September 2005: dates in battle names; categorization; pictures; project notice tags; deciding the fictiveness of a battle; capture/surrender icons.
5. September–October 2005: "Battles in" categories; new warbox design.
6. March 2004–April 2005: campaigns in modern warfare.
7. October 2005: warbox colors; war stubs; project merger.
8. October 2005: infoboxes; Napoleonic Wars stubs; project merger.
9. October–November 2005: merger completed; battle maps; warboxes; articles for divisions.
10. November–December 2005: nationality categories for wars; naming conventions for battles; war categories; battle categories; announcements section; warbox formatting; War of 1812 naval actions; warbox implementation.
11. December 2005: military unit infobox; meta-templates; wikifying ranks.
12. December 2005: open tasks template; science and technology of World War II; industrial warfare.
13. January 2006: military biographies; "Dead" versus "Killed"; Sengoku period campaignboxes.
14. December 2005–January 2006: template conversion process; task forces; World War II German categories; project coordinator positions; stub pictures.
15. January–February 2006: coordinator elections; automated tools; campaignbox review; notes field in warbox; World War II categorization; succession boxes for battles; articles for WP1.0; relative project sizes.
16. January–February 2006: future plans; drawing the line between fact and fiction; AFD; American Civil War battle names.
17. February 2006: Army or Armee?; capitalization in operation names; naming conventions for unnamed battles.
18. February 2006: campaignbox review results; US DoD military definitions; boxes for related wars; military aircraft infobox; consolidation of "aerial bombing" articles.
19. February–March 2006: collaboration of the fortnight; project template renaming; project consolidation and new task forces; units in battle infoboxes.
20. February–March 2006: project award; tagging good articles; ancient warfare task force; cartography and translation departments.
21. March 2006: countering systemic bias; peer review; list copyrights; order of entries in infoboxes.
22. March 2006: collecting references; results in military conflict infoboxes; infobox for long-term conflicts.
23. March–April 2006: categories for military people; infoboxes on stubs; naming of World War II; orders of battle.
24. March–April 2006: project newsletter; "Islamic battles".
25. April 2006: top-level category structure; welcoming new members.
26. April–May 2006: project newsletter; project award; worklist changes; consolidated project banner template.
27. April–May 2006: article importance ratings; member list maintenance; last stands.
28. May 2006: potential task forces; summarizing battles; project icon; scope of military aviation; overlapping projects.
29. May–June 2006: categories for military people; conflicts by year; task force emblems; WikiProject ADF; assessments and "good articles"; importance ratings; wargames.
30. June–July 2006: talk page layout; maritime warfare task force; War on Terrorism task force; military award infobox; automated newsletter delivery; aircraft in popular culture.
31. June–July 2006: "good articles" and "A-Class"; Far East task force; assessment statistics; project banners; "military history"; importance ratings; ahistorical images; alternate names.
32. June–July 2006: using operational codenames; project coordinator elections; Indian taskforce; German taskforce; Japanese taskforce; Dutch taskforce; removing importance ratings.
33. July–August 2006: military unit categories; new open task template; military websites; task force icons; style of operational names; project banner size reduction; intelligence agencies; primary and secondary sources; small unit articles.
34. July–August 2006: project scope and tagging by bot; Wikimania report; Society for Military History 2007; citing translations; military personnel categories; userboxes; listing combatants in infoboxes.
35. August 2006: task force ideas; "warrior kings"; military history of Europe; nested campaigns; image requests.
36. August–September 2006: new coordinators; future plans; mothballing departments; A-Class review; core biographies; map bases; task force announcements and discussions; interwiki links.
37. August–September 2006: military operation categories; A-Class reviews; regimental/battalion history; project mergers; article showcase; cavalry charges.
38. August–September 2006: featured article advice; "wars by country" categories; two-article disambiguation; collaborations; criticism of articles; featured articles with citation problems; military operations by war.
39. August–October 2006: new project award designs; Russian and Latin American task forces; Early Modern warfare task force; ranking military strength; project page length.
40. August–October 2006: military unit categorization; popular culture section guidelines; "conflict" versus "war"; stub sorting; navy definitions; military technology/science/historiography task forces; task force names; project directory.
41. October–November 2006: battles/operations; African military history task force; notability of military people; old featured articles; infobox documentation; project talk page layout.
42. October–November 2006: citation and referencing guidelines; Balkan military history task force; divisional category names; wars by century templates; merging battle stubs.
43. November–December 2006: lists versus prose; museum categories; large navigation templates versus portals; "military" people; writing contests.
44. October–December 2006: military unit naming conventions; categories for military personnel; external image links; military bases and installations; British Commonwealth forces; articles needing attention; lists of battles; orders and decorations.
45. December 2006: uncategorized articles; requests page; terminology issues with military personnel.
46. December 2006: categorizing military conflicts by country; KIA and POW icons in infoboxes; flag icons in infoboxes; A-Class versus GA; Muslim military history; LARP equipment.
47. December 2006–January 2007: Ukranian military history task force; reference styles; FAC nomination guidelines; by-era category names; task force assessment statistics.
48. December 2006–January 2007: Nordic military history task force; South American military history task force; Southeast Asian military history task force; B-Class criteria and reviews; laws of war task force; "siege" versus "battle"; Commonwealth military units; unit histories; combatants in infoboxes; citations in infoboxes.
49. January 2007: Greek and Punic names; B-Class criteria and reviews; "Germany" versus "Nazi Germany"; war faction template; military exploration.
50. December 2006–February 2007: military unit naming conventions; project page length; popular culture and illustrations; articles on national militaries; "military veterans" categories.
51. February 2007: military personnel categories; Southeast Asian task force; Harvard-style references versus footnotes; standards for biographies.
52. February 2007: campaign and operation categories; diplomatic incidents; foreign maps; consolidated review department; infoboxes for armed forces; missing topics.
53. February–March 2007: Wikipe-tan; selected articles on portals; campaign categories; classifying military conflicts; national military infobox; task forces creation; service record box; navigation box show/hide; friendly fire incidents.
54. March 2007: citation guidelines; task force ideas; navy paymasters.
55. February–March 2007: project scope and cultural depictions; expanded project award system; contest department; publication department.
56. March–April 2007: new task forces; inclusion of military personnel; award ribbons; Ottoman task force; ranks in military biographies; infoboxes for non-battle engagements; titles for proposed operations; POW categories; podcasts.
57. April–May 2007: casus belli in infoboxes; lists of events; flag icons; naming military disasters; subject-area contacts; naming senior officers; uniforms and insignia; manual of style.
58. April–June 2007: military personnel categories by nation; private security companies; category reorganization; main "military" article; capitalization of ranks; project timeline.
59. June–July 2007: "victory" in infoboxes; new task force ideas; corps naming; Muslim military history; tagging and assessment drive; game references.
60. June–August 2007: "military" categories; standardizing navigation templates; coordinator elections; espionage; unit designations.
61. August 2007: campaignbox rendering; war portals; Cossack military units.
62. August–September 2007: selected article counts; notability of military units; award images in recipients' infoboxes; Taiwanese military history.
63. August–September 2007: coordinator election results; major/minor engagements in campaignboxes; stress hotline; use of national/political affiliation; war films; plagiarism.
64. August–October 2007: flag icons; capitalization.
65. September–October 2007: popular culture; coordinators; Romanian military history task force; military intelligence disciplines.
66. October–November 2007: tagging & assessment drive; collaboration and vital articles; fortifications task force; "military" versus "armed forces"; top-level categories; reference desk questions; tagging articles by sources; articles needing attention.
67. September–November 2007: style guide and MoS; four-star and five-star ranks; military intelligence; Baltic states task force; American Revolution task force.
68. November 2007: capitalization of ranks; Pyrrhic victories; first word in biographies.
69. November–December 2007: postnominals; project awards.
70. November–December 2007: project motto; flag icons; military intelligence; notability.
71. December 2007: flag icons; unit naming.
72. December 2007–January 2008: invasions and occupations.
73. December 2007–January 2008: terminological precision; operational plan infobox; essays; campaignboxes; public domain material; image reviews.
74. January 2008: operations categories; ship pronouns; "belligerents" versus "combatants"; task forces; inherited military history.
75. January–February 2008: civil wars; unit designations; event names; conflict results.
76. January–February 2008: operations categories; national militaries; article naming.
77. January–March 2008: non-English operational codenames; MILMOS and Iran-Iraq edit wars; logistics department; lists of historically significant generals; verifiability; coordinator election results; atrocities; unit lineage; national military infobox; expatriate soldiers; most visited articles.
78. March–May 2008: coordinator emeritus; military vehicle infobox; unit naming conventions; operation naming conventions; stubs versus lists; lists of former unit members; "giving quarter"; flag icons; mediation; "belligerents" versus "combatants"; energizing task forces; most visited articles; special projects department.
79. May 2008: operation naming.