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0 pointspfannkuchen3mo ago0 comments

Wasn’t it originally called the department of war also? If anything “department of defense” was doublespeak, as it was already primarily for war.

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lo_zamoyski3mo ago

Indeed it was, from 1789 to 1947. It was then changed to Departments of Army and Air Force, later the National Military Establishment, and finally the Department of Defense in 1949.

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