Since the 1950s, academic military history has experienced an explosion in the quantity and quality of its scholarship. Historians have traditionally attributed this expansion to the advent of the “New Military History.” This article challenges the conventional account of academic military history's expansion by examining the past thirty years of work on the eighteenth‐century British Army. The results of this analysis will be used to suggest replacing the traditional divide between new and old military history with the more utilitarian subfields of the History of War and the History of the Army.