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The Minister of War of Argentina was the government department in charge of the country's military matters. It was created in 1898 after the division of the Ministry of War and Navy and its naval affiliate the Ministry of Navy. The Ministry of War was in charge of the Argentine Army.

The position was created on 10 October 1898 by Law Nº 3727 of the Congreso Nacional. As a ministry of Argentina's public administration, it directly depended on Argentina's Executive Branch for its mandate.

In 1943, the Argentine Government moved the ministry in 1950 to a new building (christened the "Liberator General San Martín Building" in Buenos Aires) ," paying homage to Argentine general and forefather José de San Martín.

It was replaced by the Ministry of the Army in 1949. On March 11th of that year, a General Constituent Convention approved the first of many temporary orders during the reforms of the Argentine Constitution of 1949. With this constitutional reform came, the 1898 version of the Ministry of Defense had been dissolved.

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In 1938, the Argentine National Gendarmerie was founded, a militarized national police dependent on Ministry of the Interior y, en some cases, the Ministry of War (Decree Nº12.367, passed on 11 August 1938).

On 13 June 1944, Argentina's executive branch created security zones in the national territory and they created the National Commission of Security Zones, under the administration of the Ministry of War.