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		From War Department to Defense Department	2023-08-13 21:21:22

From War Department to Defense Department

A government has a defense department, no offense department. If so, how can any war get started?

In 1949, the War Department was renamed the Department of Defense in the United States. Other countries probably went through similar processes.

Why the change?

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· Heyday

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· Poems about old age

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· Good, gooder; bad, better

· 相似的形状，相似的读音，相关的

· 家

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· Raw and refined: Two versions

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· Own something small wholly or

· Money as a performance enhance

· How much we pay for retirement

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· Spring up and fall down

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· Why highly educated women and

· On the concept of perfectness

· Reflection from a riddle

· On averaging denominators

· Integrating mathematical finan

· 苦难是最好的学校

· Read The need for a new public

· The earth is a gigantic batter

· Credible and Incredible

· Heretics are true believers

· Faith or good deeds

· 养儿还是育女？

· Should adult children stay wit

· Copulate, copy, populate

· Emergence and emergency

· Tart and top, start and stop

· S is about

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· Stalin Rap to Hitler and Mao

· Winter night in the north

· Winter in the deep north

· 你家的月亮

· Good bye, my friends

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· Norm, normal and Normans

· Bella and bellum

· Two meanings of like

· What is a theory?

· What is man?

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· Reading James Galbraith’s The

· 为他人作嫁衣裳：贸易强国的共同

· 什么是内需不足？

· 关于持续的贸易不平衡

· A long tradition to connect th

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· On green economy

· What are rights: Some reflecti

· On Risk Management

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· There is more brainwashing in

· 看女儿

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· Weather and climate

· 老三的一篇短文

· When defects become an advanta

· Service of necessities and ser

· 女儿的帖子

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· Predictions in social sciences

· 数学的现状和未来

· Social structures: A perspecti

· 温度和情绪（temperature and t

· Learning, memory and decision

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· When an electron falls to a pr

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· Ginger and gingerly

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