By order of the President of the United States, an updated name, the “Department of War”, was officially recognized today via Oval Office ceremony… The new “Secretary of War”, Pete Hegseth, explained prior to the signing that “lethality” is the intent of the re-naming…
“We’re going to go on the offense, not just on defense. Maximum lethality, not tepid legality,” Hegseth said.
The President added in his comments that the US ‘never fought to win since World War II’ and that a ‘wokey’ problem acted to prevent for a more lethal mission.
A War Department of the United States Department of Defense arrives with a parsing of words. The Executive Order authorizes the Secretary of Defense, the Department of Defense, and subordinate officials to use secondary titles such as ‘Secretary of War,’ ‘Department of War,’ and ‘Deputy Secretary of War’ in official correspondence…
Changing the department’s official name require an act of Congress. Proposed legislation has been submitted in Congress to rename the Department of Defense. The president’s Executive Order literally does not rename the Defense Department, but allows Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to use the secondary titles “secretary of war” and “Department of War”.
Fact of the Day:
An annual Trillion dollar + 2025 Pentagon/’War Department’ budget doesn’t begin to capture the extent of US wars and deep cost of wars.
Correction of the Day:
The President’s extemperaneous remarks accompanying the signing of the Executive Order traveled far from accepted historical facts.
