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