A War Cabinet is a committee formed by a government in a 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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—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)