Martin, of the Department of War Studies at King's College London, in an interview in March.
The Act merged the Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment (NME) headed by the Secretary of Defense.
Likewise, in 1902 Secretary Elihu Root ordered to be published a report by a Law Officer in the Office of the Secretary of the War Department which dealt with the treaty obligations of extinct States.
Edward Greenabaum, also of the War Department, and later to be Senior Partner of the prominent law firm, Greenabaum, Wolf and Ernst.
Under amendments to the National Security Act of 1947, which created the position of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the War Department, now housed for the first time in a building of its own, became the Department of Defense.
The long history of military spending in the United States begins with the establishment of the War Department, in 1789.
Magoon, Law Officer in the Office of the Secretary of the War Department, wrote a report that Secretary Elihu Root ordered to be published.
"Gulf War illness isn't some imaginary syndrome, " said Ken Robinson, the senior intelligence officer for the initial Department of Defense investigation into Gulf War illness in 1996-97.
Jim Hale asked some of his war buddies to submit letters to the Department of Veterans Affairs to support his claim for PTSD benefits.
Newsnight correspondent Peter Marshall says news of the war-crimes file, which was opened six years ago, has emerged after a Department of Justice (DoJ) investigation.
At first, the Secretary of War, a Cabinet member who, from the start, was a civilian, was called the Secretary at War, a holdover from the Revolution but also a prepositional manifestation of an ideological commitment: the department was chiefly to be called upon only if the nation was at war.
Ambassador PIERRE PROSPER (Ambassador at Large for War Crimes, U.S. Department of State): We wanted it in Freetown.
Across the federal government, and certainly in the Department of Defense, we know that after a decade of war we're entering a new era of smaller, tighter, leaner budgets.
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On that page, Mr. Fogle said he worked at the State Department, posted photos of a tour of a Moscow Cold War bunker and of Mont Saint-Michel in France and Krakow, Poland.
When the Department of Homeland Security was created as part of the "war on terror, " the old Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was subsumed into the agency, and the repackaged bureaucracy was put back in the loop (the State Department is the access point for visas).
Its leaders could not agree whether to support or condemn the Patriot Act, whether to support or criticise the new Department of Homeland Security, whether to encourage or restrain the movement to war.
White House strategists see an opportunity to paint Democrats who resist the president as soft on terrorism, much as they did after Democrats objected to some aspects of the new Homeland Security Department in 2002, or to the war in Iraq in 2004.
Nearly 3, 000 military spouses have been widowed during the global war on terror, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.
And it is certainly the case -- but I refer you to the Defense Department for details -- that we take great care in the prosecution of this war and we are very mindful of what our objectives are.
Linnas lost his U.S. citizenship in 1981 when the Justice Department accused him of being involved in the mass killings of civilians in Estonia during World War II.
For many organizations, IG has been a tug of war between Legal, IT, and the business, with each department having conflicting requirements for how information is managed, stored, and accessed.
The members included more than a dozen military officers, Iraq specialists from the State Department, and outside academics who could think conceptually about the war and the application of counter-insurgency doctrine.
He found, buried in a closet in his house, dozens of original documents that his uncle kept -- letters from the War Department, the petition to Truman and documents from Berga survivors.
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After receiving a degree in sociology from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, Shriver worked for the U.S. State Department in the Special War Problems Division from 1943 to 1945, helping former prisoners of war readjust to civilian life.
Today, the Department of Defense has some 2, 700 military dogs in service world-wide and about 600 in war zones.
For one thing, we have to also look at how we spend the revenues we do take in, and decide whether spending tens of billions of dollars a year fighting the War on Drugs, or hundreds of billions of dollars a year funding the Defense Department, are really ways we want to spend money.
And has the administration sought at all the opinion of the Office of Legal Counsel at Department of Justice, as to how closely or whether or not the White House is in compliance with the War Powers Act?
Simultaneous U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have challenged the Department of Veterans Affairs' job of providing medical care and other support for the nation's 17.4 million war vets.
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