"On Friday, Donald Trump signed an executive order restoring the Department of Defense to its original name, the Department of War. That name had a stronger sound, Trump told reporters in August. As Department of War we won everything, he added, and I think we're going to have to go back to that. In June, at the Nato summit, he called Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, his secretary of war."
"Hegseth has opined that women don't belong on the battlefield and DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) has rendered American fighting forces effeminate. Introducing a bill last week to the same effect as Trump's order, Greg Steube, a Florida Republican senator, said the new-old name would pay tribute to past fighters' renowned commitment to lethality. And the president, who fashions himself a dealmaker for peace, now has a department named to reflect his excellence as warrior king."
"The Department of War, created in 1789, became the defense department in 1949, with an amendment to the National Security Act of 1947 unifying the branches of the military. But the Department of Defense has never been a department of defense. It is a department of war. The last time the US declared war or had to defend itself, for that matter was in 1941, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor."
Donald Trump signed an executive order restoring the Department of Defense's original name, the Department of War, arguing the name had a stronger sound and recalling past victories. Trump and Pete Hegseth portray the Department of War as embodying a revived warrior ethos opposed to perceived woke influences in the armed forces. Hegseth has said women do not belong on the battlefield and criticized DEI as making forces effeminate. Senator Greg Steube proposed matching legislation to honor past fighters' commitment to lethality. The Department of War was created in 1789 and renamed Defense in 1949; the US has not formally declared war since 1941, though it has conducted several undeclared wars with mixed outcomes.
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