Re:DoD Awards $1B Contract to Peraton to Counter Misinformation
by zardo on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @04:43PM
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Surely the Department of Defense wouldn't be involved in that kind Orwellian twisting of language.
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Re:DoD Awards $1B Contract to Peraton to Counter Misinformation
by alfiedotwtf on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @04:49PM
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Irony not lost given that the Department of Defense was originally called the Department of War :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Wa...
Re:DoD Awards $1B Contract to Peraton to Counter Misinformation
by leereeves on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @06:37PM
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That's a common misconception. The DoW was just the army, and the navy was a separate cabinet department, until the National Military Establishment was created in 1947, and that department, not the DoW, was renamed to the DoD in 1949.
The DoW became the departments of the army and air force, inside the DoD.
See third paragraph in that Wiki link, and second paragraph in this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_th...