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Posted on 12/26/2025 4:39:02 AM PST by MtnClimber
President Donald Trump early in his second term renamed the Department of Defense the Department of War. This was the original name given to our federal military in 1789 and it had been in effect until it was eliminated by legislation in 1947 and actively became the Department of Defense in 1949. In William Shakespeare’s great play Romeo and Juliet, Juliet utters the immortal line, “What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” This name change by Trump is not to change the department’s smell, but to signify a change in tone, focus, and commitment.
This name change has been only one of many actions taken by our present President to push back the decades-long movement from progressivism through the New Deal through multiculturalism and the historical revisionism of the Obama years. The erosion of the philosophical and institutional/constitutional structure of America has intensified during a period exceeding one hundred years beginning with Woodrow Wilson.
Although Wilson soundly defeated the socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs for the presidency in 1912, he was committed to dramatically altering the institutional and cultural landscape of the USA in ways that enlarged the power of national policy at the expense of local and state mores and institutions.
Wilson actively supported the creation of the Federal Reserve, an institution intended to stabilize the economy which, owing to banking greed and instability, had faced various collapses over the decades. The Federal Reserve’s stated goals were “to promote effectively the goals of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates.” However, as all students of history know, the banking collapse of U.S. history began less than twenty years after the creation of the Fed, i.e., the Great Depression beginning in 1929.
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