Posted on 03/23/2025 12:53:27 PM PDT by Signalman
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, which was first led by distinguished Continental Army General Henry Knox.
The War Department existed until 1947, when it was initially split into the Department of the Army, the Department of the Air Force, and the Department of the Navy. Congress had previously established a Department of the Navy in 1798, which was under the War Department’s purview.
President Harry Truman proposed a unified department of national defense in order to better coordinate U.S. Military affairs after the Second World War. In July of 1947, Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, which established the National Military Establishment (NME) and created several individual departments, including the National Security Council, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the U.S. Air Force.
woke bishop All of these entities were placed under the control of the National Military Establishment, while the U.S. Senate confirmed James Forrestal as the first NME director a day after the department was established. In 1949, the NME was official renamed to the Department of Defense.
It is unclear whether the Trump Administration is seriously pursuing a name change at this time. Hegseth has yet to provide any follow-up details on the poll, while the DoD has yet to provide any formal press releases on the matter.
President Trump recently referred to the department as the Department of War in a Truth Social post, however, suggesting that a formal name change may indeed be pursued.
****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.
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.
DBAMF
Department of Mercenaries
> Department of War
or Department of Kinetic Military Action
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.
Reduce the spending of the Pentagon by 50%.
We should have a powerful navy. Focus on drones.
Eliminate the influence of the MIC.
How about, “Here comes the boom!”
DBTEE
Department of Breaking Things and Eliminating Enemies
Are the B and M in yours for Bad and Mother?
Department of Defense is almost wimpy. Department of War is “I’ll see you and raise you”.
Department of Manifest Destiny.
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.
What it was. Longer than DoD, IIRC
Department of Death and Destruction. DDD.
It was the “War Department “ until the love-peace gang arrived.
Or Dept of FAFO
Department of Breaking Things and Killing People.........
Department of FAFO
General Buck Turgidson would approve.
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