Center of Military History: A product of the United States Military Academy, the site is great at providing access to online seconday sources on a number of wars that the U.S. was party to. One will also find a bevy of military photographs and paintings, not to mention an exhaustive bibliography of military history literature. Make sure to view the various features on the homepage.
Hillsdale College: Documents in Military History: An ambitious product: provides both primary source information as well as classic secondary source information. Also nice in that it covers a variance of conflicts, both geographically and chronologically.
Web Sources for Military History: University of Illinois, Chicago: Professor Richard Jensen makes this site go. He has produced a comprehensive index of Web resources regarding military history. Most sites are useful as well as authoritative.
University of Kansas History Index: Military History: Much akin to the Jenses site in that it's a huge Web index. However, despite frequent overlap between both publishers, the KU site is just plain bigger.
Naval Historical Center: The definite source to online information on the history of the United States Navy. Online articles, pamphlets, battle records for ships, naval art, rare photographs, and tons of referring links. From John Paul Jones to Midway, you'll find it here.
NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL): A groundbreaking site in many regards. The best online source to digitized photographs and documents pertaining to the nation's history. In particular, excels in the area of military history. The best part? Photographs are easy to download and they can be reproduced at no liability because their status as public domain.
Imperial War Museum (London): The best military museum in the world takes its act to the Web. Being attacked by the Romans, Vikings, Normans, French, and Nazis has provided the English a proud military history, one which is covered in detail on this site. Although one will find a considerable bias toward WWII--and it is just Britannia--it's a fine site that will eat up your afternoon if you're not careful.
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Online Map Library: United States Military Academy: A clear, and well-organized site with a bunch of practical information. Made up mostly of digitized maps, the site's scope is great, covering battles from Ancient Rome to the modern day Korean Peninsula.