Click here to read Bob Barney’s view on the name change and why it shouldn’t be…
President Donald Trump floated the idea of transferring the Department of Defense to the Department of War — a title that George Washington used when he established America’s first official Army.
Patty Nieberg – TaskAndPurpose.com
President Donald Trump recently hinted that he may revert the Department of Defense back to the Department of War, an old title dating back to 1789.
“It used to be called the Department of War and it had a stronger sound. And as you know, we won World War I, we won World War II. We won everything. Now we have a Department of Defense with defenders,” Trump said at an Aug. 25 Oval Office event, adding that he didn’t want “to be defense only” but also “offense too.”
“It’s coming, sir,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in response.
It wasn’t the first time Trump insinuated that a name change was on the horizon. In a July 11 Truth Social post and last month during a NATO summit, Trump referred to Hegseth as the “Secretary of War.”
It’s the latest name change floated by Trump — a trend that’s become a hallmark of the second Trump Administration, especially when it comes to the Pentagon.
During the first few months of the new administration, Hegseth announced that Army bases originally named for Confederate leaders but were renamed in the wake of 2020 diversity initiatives would return to their original namesakes. However, as the name changes for seven bases were announced, they came with a twist: While the names were fundamentally the same, they were attributed to different soldiers with the same last names.
If you ran on a platform of no more forever wars, which now seems was a lie, then changing the name of the department of defense to the department of war (which the name change IS NOT LEGAL) to me proves that you love war, not DEFENSE! If you read my column above, it states clearly why we changed the name in the first place.
Bob Barney