Consider just two examples: the early American "Dont Tread on Me" flag and WWII Office of War Information posters.
Mr Power said after the war his unit's papers were sent to the War Office and effectively classified.
They were eventually saved after a campaign by historians to rescue them from the old War Office building in Whitehall.
Unfortunately, the conservatism of the British War Office, combined with extreme economic pressure, prevented this prototype of the Blitzkrieg being exploited.
The War Office in London now forbade pipers to play in battle, but Mr Millin and Lord Lovat, as Scots, plotted rebellion.
Churchill told MI5 to leak the Droz report, adding sternly that "it must not appear as having been furnished by the War Office".
The chief prosecutor at Germany's office investigating Nazi war crimes, Kurt Schrimm, said details on the suspect came to light during the high-profile Demjanjuk investigation.
The following year, it moved with Congress to Philadelphia and, in 1800, to Washington, where it was stored at the Treasury Department until it was shifted to the War Office.
The act also established the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which grew out of World War II era Office of Strategic Services and small post-war intelligence organizations.
President Bush, who was in office during the first Gulf War, said he "mourned the loss" of Gen Schwarzkopf, "one of the great military leaders of his generation".
Some 100, 000 women were employed by the Post Office at the height of World War II.
Magoon, Law Officer in the Office of the Secretary of the War Department, wrote a report that Secretary Elihu Root ordered to be published.
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.
W. Bush announced the start of the first Gulf war from the Oval Office, telling Americans and the world that he was the commander in chief just by setting the scene in the Oval Office.
To understand the difference, consider the CIA's World War II predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services.
His office says that it is not a war-crimes investigation but part of an internal process to advise the secretary-general.
As a candidate for this office, I pledged I would end this war.
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The BBC Scotland programme Britain's Private War asked the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for a response to the documentary.
Ratko Mladic has been indicted for war crimes and should surrender his office under the terms of the Dayton peace accord.
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In the second world war he was attached to the Office of Strategic Services, an intelligence unit, picking targets in Germany for American bombers to attack, and rose to the rank of major.
Among those asked to do the same are John Williams, head of news at the Foreign Office in the run-up to the war, who was involved in early versions of the September 2002 dossier which has since become notorious for its suggestion Iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes.
The Home Office said an Australian passport holder - after the war, Mr Kalejs became an Australian citizen - on a visit to Britain would be allowed to stay for six months.
No Italian government has managed to stay in office for an entire five-year term since World War II.
The first wave focused on the small Special Plans Office, set up last fall to prepare for possible war in Iraq.
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After William Bundy left government service he was harassed by opponents of the war, and a bomb exploded in his office.
Home Office Minister James Brokenshire condemned the theft of metals from war memorials as "despicable" and reiterated Mrs May's earlier comments that the government and the police were working on a plan to combat the problem.
Instead, within days of taking office he mobilized the Mexican military for an all-out war against the drug cartels.
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Mr Cheney's office took an interest, seeking to consolidate the case for war.
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As a result, on the statistics we are the first Government since the war to have crime lower than when we took office.
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Mr Vasquez, in office from 2005 to 2010, said he had weighed a war option amid a dispute with Argentina over a pulp mill on their border.
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