Trump speaking to the media prior to signing an executive order renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War as Hegseth (centre) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force General Dan Caine look on in the White House. — TNS
I HAVE no problem with renaming the Department of Defense into the Department of War, as Donald Trump is trying to do. (It’s technically not up to the president but to Congress, but the Republicans there will oblige him.) After all, that martial label was good enough from George Washington to Harry Truman.
And “war” is more honest and descriptive than the somewhat euphemistic “defense.” As Trump put it, “we want to be offensive too if we have to be.” Even that holds water.
