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Comment Re:Turns Out, the Coyote Had Better Taste (Score 1) 92

No. The Department of the Army didn 't "replace" the Department of War,, it *was* the Deparrtment of War. Same secretary (Kenneth Royale), same personnel, same everything. Only the name changed. It can trace its unbroken existence back to its founding in 1794 to the present day. The Department of Defense, meanwhile, got the Secretary of the *Navy* (James Forrestal) as its secretary, all new personnel, and was a totally new organization (with John Sullivan as Forrestal's replacement at Navy).

Comment Re:Turns Out, the Coyote Had Better Taste (Score 1) 92

No, the Department of the Army still exists. It was removed from the Cabinet in 1949 but it didn't go anywhere. There was a recent kerfuffle about the Secretary of the Army leaving his position. You may have seen it in the news. The simple fact is that the Department of Defense was an all-new creation and not a renaming of anything.

Comment Re:Turns Out, the Coyote Had Better Taste (Score 1) 92

"The Dept of Defense was a 1949 PR renaming of the Dept of War."

An often-repeated falsehood. The Department of War was renamed the Department of *the Army.*. The Department of Defense was a new creation to unify supervision of the US armed forces, named that because calling it the Department of War would have given the impression that the Navy was being placed under the control of the Army, which would have gone down very badly with the Navy.

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