National Security Act of 1947
The
National Security Act of 1947 was a major restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies following
World War II . The majority of the provisions of the Act took effect on September 18, 1947, the day after the
Senate confirmed
James Forrestal as the first
Secretary of Defense .
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The Act merged the
Department of War (renamed as the
Department of the Army ) and the
Department of the Navy into the
National Military Establishment (NME), headed by the Secretary of Defense. It also created the
Department of the Air Force and the
United States Air Force , which separated the
Army Air Forces into its own service. It also protected the
Marine Corps as an independent service, under the Department of the Navy.
Aside from the military reorganization, the act established the
National Security Council and the
Central Intelligence Agency , the U.S.'s first peacetime non-military
intelligence agency .
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