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		giorgioz 31 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Department of War just shot the accountants an... Why are they not calling it Department of Defense? Department of War hasn't been in used since 1947: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Wa... https://www.war.gov/ I'm quite concernedd by the decision to use again terms such as department of War. It feels we are going back to war-driven nationalism.

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