Posted on 09/04/2025 4:25:26 PM PDT by C210N
FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Friday to alter the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War, reverting to the agency’s former namesake, Fox News Digital has learned.
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American aggression in the Nationalist hands is a beautiful thing. In fact, I don’t know how many decades you’d have to go back for a comperable situation...Teddy Roosevelt?
It was always called The Department of War until after WW2.
The hexagon. ( recognizing Space Force ) ?
Good article dumb headline.
Splody heads will Splode.
Media fun will ensue.
Might as well call it what it’s become since the Cold War ended.
This is great news, it is something that has bothered me some all my life, and I sure didn’t think it would ever be fixed.
Before the MIC.
So I guess SECDEF becomes SECWAR?
best war president ever, maybe the 600,000 chinese student will be used as human shield, that’d be fantastic.
Maybe it should be named something that reflects the fact that it is both for defense and war. Department of war sounds a bit arrogant to me.
DOD Dept of Diversity.
Now get rid of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. One top military man is not a good thing. Keep the Joint Chiefs for a wide variety of opinions. Get rid of that Chairman position.
(This might require a change of that 1949 law.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense
National Military Establishment
President Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment of 1949.
After the end of World War II, President Harry Truman proposed the creation of a unified department of national defense. In a special message to the Congress on 19 December 1945, the president cited wasteful military spending and interdepartmental conflicts. Deliberations in Congress went on for months focusing heavily on the role of the military in society and the threat of granting too much military power to the executive.[11] On 26 July 1947, Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, which established the National Military Establishment (NME) and created the National Security Council, National Security Resources Board, United States Air Force, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The NME was placed under the control of the new post of secretary of defense.[12][13][14]
The National Military Establishment formally began operations on 18 September, the day after the Senate confirmed James V. Forrestal as the first secretary of defense.[13] The National Military Establishment was renamed the “Department of Defense” on 10 August 1949, and absorbed the three cabinet-level military departments, in an amendment to the original 1947 law.[15] The renaming is alleged to be due to the Establishment’s abbreviation, NME, being pronounced “enemy.”[16]
The Department of War was the former name of the Department of the Army, not the Department of Defense. There was no joint department that included all of the branches. The precursor of the Department of Defense was the National Military Establishment created after WWII.
Actually, the Department of War was the name for what is now the Department of the Army. Before the creation of the Department of Defense, the US Navy and US Marine Corps were in a separate Department of the Navy.
That leaves out the Navy Department. It was always separate from the War Department. Sometimes Trump gets ahead of himself.
Truth in advertising. Now rename the other departments for what they actually do as well.
I can see leftist’s heads exploding over this one.
When my grandmother’s husband worked there, folks in DC called it ‘The War Department’.
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