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A War Cabinet is a committee formed by a government in time of war. It is usually a subset of the full executive cabinet of ministers. It is also quite common for a War Cabinet to have senior military officers and opposition politicians as members.

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First World War

During the First World War, lengthy Cabinet discussions came to be seen as a source of vacillation in Britain's war effort. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All In December 1916 it was proposed that the Prime Minister Herbert Asquith should delegate decision-making to a small, three-man committee chaired by the Secretary of State for War David Lloyd George. Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the political leader of the United Kingdom Herbert Henry Asquith 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, KG, PC ( 12 September 1852 &ndash 15 February 1928) served David Lloyd George 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor OM, PC (17 January 1863 &ndash 26 March 1945 was a British Statesman and the only Asquith initially agreed (provided he retained the right to chair the committee if he chose) before changing his mind after being infuriated by an article in "The Times" which portrayed the proposed change as a defeat for him. The political crisis grew from this point until Asquith was forced to resign as Prime Minister; he was succeeded by David Lloyd George who therefore formed a small War Cabinet. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the political leader of the United Kingdom David Lloyd George 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor OM, PC (17 January 1863 &ndash 26 March 1945 was a British Statesman and the only Members of the War Cabinet were:

Other members:

Unlike a normal peacetime Cabinet, few of these men had departmental responsibilities. George Nathaniel Curzon 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC ( 11 January 1859 &ndash 20 March The Lord President of the Council is the fourth of the Great Officers of State of the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord High Treasurer and above Andrew Bonar Law (16 September 1858 &ndash 30 October 1923 was a Canadian -born British Conservative Party statesman and Prime Minister. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British Cabinet minister who is responsible for all Economic and Financial Arthur Henderson (13 September 1863 – 20 October 1935 was a British union leader politician Disarmament advocate and the 1934 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Alfred Milner 1st Viscount Milner, KG, GCB, GCMG, PC (23 March 1854&ndash13 May 1925 was a controversial German-born British Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM, CH, PC, ED, KC, FRS (24 May 1870 &ndash 11 September 1950 was a prominent George Nicoll Barnes CH PC ( January 2, 1859 &ndash April 21, 1940) was a Scottish Politician and a Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain KG ( 16 October 1863 &ndash 17 March 1937) was a British Statesman, Sir Eric Campbell-Geddes, GCB, GBE, PC, ( 26 September 1875 &ndash 22 June 1937) was a British The Foreign Secretary, Arthur Balfour was never a member of the War Cabinet, nor were the Secretary of State for War (Lord Derby) nor the First Lord of the Admiralty Edward Carson, nor the Minister of Munitions Winston Churchill (from mid 1917) although Lord Milner became Secretary of State for War in 1918. Arthur James Balfour 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC (25 July 1848 - 19 March 1930 was a British Conservative politician and Edward Henry Carson Baron Carson, PC, Kt, KC (often known as Sir Edward Carson or Lord Carson) ( Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC, PC (Can ( 30 November 1874 Alfred Milner 1st Viscount Milner, KG, GCB, GCMG, PC (23 March 1854&ndash13 May 1925 was a controversial German-born British

From the northern spring of 1917, the British war cabinet was superseded by the Imperial War Cabinet, which had representation from the Dominions. The Imperial War Cabinet was created by British Prime Minister David Lloyd George in the spring of 1917 as a means of co-ordinating the British A dominion, often Dominion, refers to one of a group of autonomous polities under sovereign authority within the British Empire and Its members were:

Second World War

On 3 September 1939, Neville Chamberlain announced his War Cabinet.

Dominated largely by Conservative ministers who served under Chamberlain's National Government between 1937 and 1939, the additions of Lord Hankey (Liberal and a former Cabinet Secretary from the First World War) and Winston Churchill (strong anti-appeaser) seemed to give the Cabinet more balance. Unlike Lloyd George's War Cabinet, the members of this one were also heads of Government Departments.

In January of 1940, after disagreements with the Chiefs of Staff, Hore-Belisha resigned from the National Government, refusing a new position as Minister of Information. He was succeeded by Oliver Stanley.

When he became Prime Minister during the Second World War, Winston Churchill formed a War Cabinet, initially consisting of the following:

It would undergo many changes in composition over the next five years. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the political leader of the United Kingdom World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC, PC (Can ( 30 November 1874 Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC, PC (Can ( 30 November 1874 The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 &ndash 9 November 1940 was a British Conservative Politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Clement Richard Attlee 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC ( 3 January 1883 &ndash 8 October 1967 The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Edward Frederick Lindley Wood 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC ( 16 April 1881 &ndash For the US congressional representative from Indiana see Arthur H

United States

In response to the September 11, 2001 attacks, United States President George W. Bush created a War Cabinet. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. They met at Camp David on the weekend of September 15 to shape what became the War on Terrorism. The Naval Support Facility Thurmont, popularly known as Camp David, is the rustic 125-acre (0 Events 668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse Italy. The War on Terrorism (also known as the War on Terror) is the common term for the military political and legal, and ideological conflict and specifically for U

The Cabinet comprised Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, George Tenet, Hugh Shelton, John Ashcroft, Paul O'Neill, Karen Hughes, Ari Fleischer, Robert Mueller, Paul Wolfowitz, and Andy Card. Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (born January 30 1941 is the forty-sixth and current Vice President of the United States. Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9 1932 is a United States Businessman, Politician, the 13th Secretary of Defense under President Condoleezza Rice (born November 14 1954 is the 66th United States Colin Luther Powell, KCB (Honorary MSC, (born April 5, 1937) is a retired General in the United States Army. George John Tenet (born January 5, 1953) was the Director of Central Intelligence for the United States Central Intelligence Agency General Henry Hugh Shelton (born January 2, 1942) is a retired American career military officer John David Ashcroft (born May 9 1942) is an American Politician who was the 79th United States Attorney General. Paul O'Neill may refer to Paul O'Neill (baseball, a former Major League Baseball player and current broadcaster Paul O'Neill (cabinet member Karen "Brown Teeth" "Old Face" Parfitt Hughes (born December 27, 1956) is a Republican politician from the state of Texas Lawrence Ari Fleischer (born October 13 1960) was the press secretary for U Robert Swan Mueller III (born August 7 1944 is the current Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is a former United States Ambassador to Indonesia, U Andrew Hill "Andy" Card Jr (born May 10 1947 is an American politician and lobbyist former United States Cabinet member and head of George W

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