War Office - Definition and Overview
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The
War Office
was a government agency in both the
United Kingdom
and the
United States
.
The British
War Office
, or
War Department
, controlled the
British Army
until
1964
.
The United States
War Office
, formally the
Department of War
, controlled the
United States Army
until
1949
.
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