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Trump signs executive order renaming the Defense Department as Department of War: "It has to do with winning. We should have won every war. We could have won every war. We really chose to be a very politically correct or wokey and we just fight forever."


Sept. 5, NYT,
David E. Sanger
The Return of the ‘War Department’ Is More Than Nostalgia. It’s a Message.

“In a way it makes perfect sense: This administration is simply taking us back to that period before the Truman era,” said Douglas Lute, a career Army officer who played key roles in the National Security Council in the Bush and Obama administrations and served as the U.S. ambassador to NATO. “It has disassembled the processes, institutions and the norms that were established after World War II.

...words matter to other nations as well, allies and adversaries alike. And this change in name, assuming Congress is willing to rewrite the Truman-era laws, plays right into the narrative that Russia and China propagate about the United States.

In their telling, all of America’s talk about being a peace-loving, law-abiding international player is thin cover for a country that truly just wants to strike at any target it regards as a threat. To bolster their cases, their state-controlled commentators point to Mr. Trump’s unilateral decisions to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in June or sink an open skiff of alleged drug runners, killing 11 people off the coast of Venezuela.

Mr. Trump and Mr. Hegseth may be granting President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia a similar opportunity. Long before he invaded Ukraine in 2022, Mr. Putin insisted the “root causes” of his determination to restore some of the old boundaries of the Russian empire included the American-led drive to expand NATO to Russia’s borders in the 1990s. The West’s response has always been that NATO’s presence is entirely defensive.

But the United States undercuts that case when it insists that it’s tired of playing defense, as the president and the defense secretary have insisted repeatedly in recent weeks. To them, the restoration of a War Department heralds the fact that there is a new sheriff in town, with a new way of looking at the use of force.

read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/politics/trump-war-department-defense-history.html


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