[Signalman]

I like the Dept. of War. Has a nice ring to it.

[ansel12]

****President George Washington’s original cabinet contained just four departments and department heads: Department of State, which was led by inaugural Secretary Thomas Jefferson, Department of the Treasury, which was conceived and headed up by Alexander Hamilton, Attorney General Edmund Randolph, and the Department of War****

The Department of War, The War Department
Let’s do it, return purpose and real language.

[Reverend Wright]

This would be an important change.

Liberal euphemisms and word games seem trivial. But are important.

Watch them shreik and scream over this like nothing else.

[Manic_Episode]

DBAMF

[T.B. Yoits]

Department of Mercenaries

[glorgau]

> Department of War

or Department of Kinetic Military Action

[epluribus_2]

Strategic Air Command (SAC)

motto: Peace Is Our Profession

logic: when you can believably, reliably and willingly
destroy any foe on earth if threatened - you get Peace.

[MinorityRepublican]

Rename the dept. to the War Department.

Reduce the spending of the Pentagon by 50%.

We should have a powerful navy. Focus on drones.

Eliminate the influence of the MIC.

[Nachoman]

How about, “Here comes the boom!”

[ryderann]

Department of Defense is almost wimpy. Department of War is “I’ll see you and raise you”.

[Steely Tom]

Department of Manifest Destiny.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

I like the Department of War name. It keeps things in perspective.

When America is not at War, it should be at peace. The rate of technological advance, world shrinkage, complicates things, but should not alter the basic premise.

[Gaffer]

What it was. Longer than DoD, IIRC

[HYPOCRACY]

Department of Death and Destruction. DDD.

[blackdog]

It was the “War Department “ until the love-peace gang arrived.

[Red Badger]

Department of Breaking Things and Killing People.........

[Hebrews 11:6]

General Buck Turgidson would approve.

[maddog55]

Enemy Annihilations Division

[ClearCase_guy]

Can we make “Homeland Security” into an actual Department of Defense?

[wildcard_redneck]

Department of War is a far more honest title than is Department of Defense. Did the Department of Defense ever defend our borders against invasion? No, they did not.

[Jim Noble]

I am 100% in favor of a change to the Department of War, but note that for most of our history there was also a Department of the Navy of co-equal cabinet status with the War Department.

I would not wish the Navy to be subsumed into a War Department.