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by Chlorus 2113 days ago
…it was created in September 18, 1947 as part of a reorg brought on by difficulties encountered during WWII. Pretty good foresight on their part to realize they were going to need to start a bunch of unnecessary wars!
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rriepe 2113 days ago
It was 14 years before Eisenhower's famous speech on the military/industry complex. Maybe they were just incredibly prescient.
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qntty 2111 days ago
The tensions with the USSR that prefigured the Cold War had already began before the end of WWII.
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