President Donald Trump wants to rename Dod to War Department

The Pentagon in the 1960s. It was a headquarters of the American Defense Ministry since 1949. years.

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President Donald Trump has repeatedly described as someone who hates war. Before he led for the office, he was critical of American involvement in Iraq, and during his first administration, he promised to end the American presence in Afghanistan. Maga movement also called for more Isolationist or “America’s first” agenda and vocally opposed to the so-called “endless wars”.

Still, for all that glitter “war”, then Trump sometimes seemed a bit of a falcon.

While he spoke at the Oval Office on Monday, Trump proposed that the Defense Department may return to his former name, “War” or “War Department”.

“Pete Hegseth was amazing with, as I call, Department of War. We know, we call him the Defense Department, but between us, I will change the name”, we said Trump During the meeting With the South Korean President Lee Jae-Mianung.

“You want to know the truth, I think we will have some information about maybe soon,” Trump added, noting his former name, and then claiming that it is better than the War Department.

“The defense is part of it. But I have a feeling that we will change it. We all had an incredible victory history when it was a department for war,” the president explained. “I don’t just want to be the defense. And we want an offensive.”

History of the War Department

The war department was 1789. He founded President George Washington. It was the Department of Cabinets for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army, as well as for Naval Affairs, as long as 1798. was established a separate Navy Department. Since its founding, the war managed the War Department. This Civil monitors the responsibilities of finance and purchase and played a much smaller role in the direction of military jobs from the current defense minister.

Executive building Dwight D. Eisenhover Previously is a war department (Photo Brooks Kraft / Corbis / Corbis via Getty Images)

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Retired General Henry KnokFor whom Fort Knok was found, he served as the first secretary of the United States war.

The War Department existed until 1947, when President Harry Truman reorganized him and two years later It was renamed Defense Department.

“The department name was changed to the Defense Department to reflect the idea that war is not considered moral as if in the past and the second job of the Pentagon was certainly not to warn,” Dr Matthew J. Schmidt, an associate professor of national security and politicians at the University of Novi Haven, explained in the name.

“It was to prevent war because any nuclear war would be the last, so the idea was to defend himself from the war to provide such positive things to do such things,” said Schmidt.

Var vs. Defense – different concepts

The concept of the war department was not new in the United States. Similar ministries It could be followed in China at 7. century and Japan at 8. century. However, the United States was leading to the West, as the King or the second ruler of most European nations directly controlled military forces.

As the kings and masters stopped leading troops in battle, the role of the army chief fell on the chancellor. At the end of the 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th century, several nations followed the guidance of America by establishing a department or more often the Ministry of War. France, Portugal, Prussia, Russia and Saxony were among the nations they had such an office, which also had questions of command and the condition of the appropriate military forces of the nation and payment of its maintenance.

The weakness of the Ministry of War in the Ministry of Defense also followed this in the United States, and the reasons were also similar. First, in most nations, the Ministry monitors the army only, while the second ministry has monitored the Navy. With the introduction of airforce, all these branches rolled into one ministry or department, in the case of the United States. It is intended to address any inter-service conflict.

Another and significant change was in the name. After the fears of the first and second wars, the focus was put on defense, in order to emphasize that he protected his homeland and its people, instead of dealing with offensive wars. Also promotes civilian control over the military.

The Secretary of Defense of Pete Hegseth, which Trump called the “war secretary” in at least one occasion, conducted an unscientific survey on x Earlier this year, asking whether Americans preferred the “defense department”, with 54.3% approval of the old name compared to 45.7% decided to defend moniker. The technical entrepreneur Elon Musk was in favor of the former name, writing, “war is more accurate.”

“It’s just pretty stunning that we will return to the war department,” Dr. Schmidt continued. “It is antithetically for all ethical standards that the military united states are known for education of their students in and in the ways it deals with their rules of engagement.”