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I mean, that's what it used to be called...
more fitting tbh.
Kind of. The Department of War was the Army only. The Department of Navy was its own department and operated based on a different set of military demands, which was a major reason why the Marines exist.
It wasn't until after World War II when the USA recognized the difficulty in having two separate departments for the military made combined operations hard to implement. You also had the Army maintaining a larger peacetime size and a third branch, the Air Force, being created to optimize for a new theater of war.
And the coast guard was there too.
It was called that back when we were kicking the shit out of fascists, just like tod ... oh.