President Donald Trump is Executive Orders are expected to be signed On Friday, the Ministry of Defense was renamed to the Ministry of War. The action itself has no legal power; formal name change will require Congressional approval, although the White House reportedly is Find a solution. Changing the signage and brands of the largest government departments, with global facilities and bases, will also be very expensive. As Reuters pointed outThe Byton administration now named the program of only nine army bases, with the loss of about $39 million for the leaders of the Allied nations.
Why is it worth it? exist Oval Office Event Last MonthTrump explained that the Department of Defense’s name “doesn’t sound good to me…it used to be called the Department of War. It’s a stronger voice, you know, we won World War I, we won World War II, we won everything, we won everything. Now we have the Department of Defense; we are defenders; we don’t know.” Trump addressed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth during his tenure at the Pentagon, who said during his tenure at the Pentagon: “If you want to swap it for everything we’ve won the war all the time, that’s OK for me.”
So, why does the United States have a “defense” department? Trump is right, there was a War Department before World War II, but it wasn’t exactly the same institution. The department oversees the Army, while the Navy Department has a separate department.
President Harry Truman and other military leaders believe that this division hindered American actions during World War II, and even hindered American actions Truman arguesThis resulted in failure to prevent the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
“There is a huge bureaucratic quarrel between the Army and the Navy and the Emerging Air Force on the allocation of financial resources,” Melvin Leflera historian at the University of Virginia, The author of a book About Truman and the Origin of the Cold War. “Truman and his top national security adviser believe it is crucial to integrate and rationalize both national security plans and war plans preparations.”
The National Security Act of 1947 merged the Army, Navy and the newly independent Air Force into a unit of a cabinet secretary. The department was originally called the state military agency, but soon became the Ministry of Defense. ((NME: Not the best acronym)
Lefler said it was very intentional to choose “defense” over “war”, which was when the Cold War in the United States and the emergence of nuclear weapons dramatically increased the interests of conflicts between superpowers.
“The overall focus on President Truman and his advisers is to stop future wars, not to start wars,” Lefler said. He also noted that the change was carried out at a time when the U.S. government’s broader view of national security (also founded in 1947) was to stop wars, in addition to preparing to fight them.
Of course, since then, the war in the United States has exceeded its share of war, as advocates who advocated the name Change pointed out. “After the establishment of the Ministry of Defense, the United States has become a greater interventionist power Written on Twitter. “Renaming the Department of Defense War is just a reality of recognizing the actual role of the Department of Defense over the past 80 years.”
Meanwhile, the United States managed to avoid a major catastrophic war with its peer rivals, Truman and his assistants had a nightmare in 1947, and tensions between the United States, China and Russia today, today are very relevant.
Leffler worries about “from defense arrive war Impressed by a greater desire to participate in the bell policy. This could lead to actual armed conflict. ”
It is also worth noting that the proposed name change is that the Pentagon (whether you want to call it) is Prioritize homeland security Prepare for potential wars with China and seems to have greatly expanded the scope of the U.S. military’s powers In the Western Hemisphere exist Streets of American cities – At least in formal places, we are in “war.”
