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[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There's a reason why after WWII the Department of War was renamed Department of Defense.

We weren't at war. We're not currently at war, either. Chester's gotta ask Congress to rubber-stamp a war first.

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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

That’s some very antiquated and naive logic. NONE of these conflicts involved a formal declaration of war:

Korean War

Vietnam War

Persian Gulf

Afghanistan

Iraq War

So you’re going to tell me we weren’t at war for any of those? Bullshit. There’s been plenty of work for a Department of War in the US since WW2.

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[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

I mean that after WWII, the public sentiment was "We're done with war. Whew!" That's exactly why officially declaring war and using the war powers workaround was used in ever example you gave.

It was the Department of War for 150 years before 1947 when Truman changed the name.

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