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The return of the War Department

Noted satirist Richard Armour (1906–1989) said of Wild Bill Hickok that he never killed anyone except in self-defense. The problem was, if I recall the humor correctly, that Wild Bill was constantly defending himself. This might apply in som...

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The War Department, a Return to the Past in u.s. History

The U.S. Department of War, the name chosen by Donald Trump to name the U.S. Department of Defense from now on, is in fact an ancient nomenclature in U.S. government history. – More than 200 years – The U.S. Department of War was established in August 1789 to oversee the U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, according to the Pentagon's official history website. A little less than a decade later, the responsibility of the naval forces was transferre…

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