• Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    To be fair, yes, it was originally the Dept. of War. It actually is more honest. Even a broken clock is right twice a day, yadda yadda.

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      16 hours ago

      When it was the War Department, it only managed the Army, the Navy had its own cabinet secretary & department, and the Air Force was still part of the Army. When it was all military forces were brought under a single department, it got renamed so it didn’t look like the Navy was being made subservient to the Army.

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        5 hours ago

        Good historical context, thank you. I’m not American so I wasn’t aware of these nuances :)