Communist Deep Staters Are Angry That Trump Has Reverted the "Department of War" Back to Its Original Name

The name of the Department was changed, probably by liberals, for PR reasons.

There is no need to euphemize it: The point of a military is to fight and win wars, not "hearts and minds."

If "Department of War" was good enough for the founding fathers, it should be good enough for us.

Pentagon officials grappled Friday with the Herculean task of fulfilling President Donald Trump's executive order to remold the enormous, global agency into the Department of War.

Many expressed frustration, anger and downright confusion at the effort, which could cost billions of dollars for a cosmetic change that would do little to tackle the military's most pressing challenges -- such as countering a more aggressive alliance of authoritarian nations.

The details of the order Trump signed Friday are still vague, but officials may need to change Defense Department seals on more than 700,000 facilities in 40 countries and all 50 states. This includes everything from letterhead for six military branches and dozens more agencies down to embossed napkins in chow halls, embroidered jackets for Senate-confirmed officials and the keychains and tchotchkes in the Pentagon store.

"This is purely for domestic political audiences," said a former defense official. "Not only will this cost millions of dollars, it will have absolutely zero impact on Chinese or Russian calculations. Worse, it will be used by our enemies to portray the United States as warmongering and a threat to international stability."

This article is based on interviews with more than half a dozen current and former defense officials, many of whom have insight into the broader sentiment in the department. The people were granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue.

How many of them supported the "51 Intelligence Officials" letter? Did you ask them, Politico?

POLITICO reported Thursday that the Trump administration planned to change the Defense Department's name to the Department of War to present a more aggressive image of its military to the world.

"We won World War I, we won World War II, we won everything before that and in between, and then we decided to go woke, and we changed the name to DOD. So, we're going Department of War," Trump said at an Oval Office press conference on Friday announcing the move.

A formal name change would likely require an act of Congress, although a person familiar with the deliberations said the White House was looking for ways to avoid a congressional vote.

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A Defense Department official, who asked to be referred to as a "War Department" official, said the costs of the move are expected to fluctuate as it is implemented.

That didn't assuage some employees. "I see there being a million small headaches and annoyances if this actually happens," said a defense official. "It'll eat up time and effort."

A War Department existed from U.S. independence until 1947, when the Truman administration split the Army and Air Force into separate military branches and joined them with the then-independent Navy to form a new agency. An act of Congress two years later coined it the Department of Defense.

"We know how to rebrand without having to go crazy," Trump said Friday in response to questions about the potential cost of the move. The president said he was unsure whether he needed congressional approval for the name change, but would press ahead.

Seems like you could make this change pretty easily. Just start ordering new... letterhead. Use the old paper until it runs out. So, for a brief period we'll have letters on both Department of Defense and Department of War letterhead. Seems like people will figure it out.

As far as names on bases-- they're periodically changed. Just change them to "Department of War" as they're due to be repainted.

In fact, that's exactly what Trump has ordered.

The official announcement:

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose. On August 7, 1789, 236 years ago, President George Washington signed into law a bill establishing the United States Department of War to oversee the operation and maintenance of military and naval affairs. It was under this name that the Department of War, along with the later formed Department of the Navy, won the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II, inspiring awe and confidence in our Nation's military, and ensuring freedom and prosperity for all Americans. The Founders chose this name to signal our strength and resolve to the world. The name "Department of War," more than the current "Department of Defense," ensures peace through strength, as it demonstrates our ability and willingness to fight and win wars on behalf of our Nation at a moment's notice, not just to defend. This name sharpens the Department's focus on our own national interest and our adversaries' focus on our willingness and availability to wage war to secure what is ours. I have therefore determined that this Department should once again be known as the Department of War and the Secretary should be known as the Secretary of War.

Sec. 2. Implementation. (a) The Secretary of Defense is authorized the use of this additional secondary title -- the Secretary of War -- and may be recognized by that title in official correspondence, public communications, ceremonial contexts, and non-statutory documents within the executive branch.

(b) The Department of Defense and the Office of the Secretary of Defense may be referred to as the Department of War and the Office of the Secretary of War, respectively, in the contexts described in subsection (a) of this section.

So "Department of War" is a secondary title, secondary but official and acceptable, and there is no need to spend "billions" on... paper and paint. We will replace the signage and letterhead as we go.

And once again, the lefties are shown to be liars and incompetents. They didn't even bother taking the one minute needed to read the proclamation.

It's unbelievable how the same liberals who supported $100 billion in Bidenbucks being spent on Transgender Jazz Therapy in Lahore, Pakistan suddenly get so spending-conscience whenever we want to spend a few bucks on... new letterhead and some paint.

I'm a history buff and an old-soul and someone who is convinced that the last eighty years of American history are marked by a Soviet, and then Woke Transnationalist World Ruling Class, subversion of our nation and demoralization of our people. I want the country reverted to its last known good configuration, as they say in IT.

Is this symbolic? Mostly! But the initial change was also entirely symbolic and we didn't hear wet lefties complaining about it then.

Symbols are important to people.

And if the left views this as just another cultural counter-aggression by Trump and declaration that they are no longer in control and are now the hunted rather than the hunters.

Do the transnational socialist World Government types now feel... demoralized? Made afraid by a government that now seems to target them rather than the citizens they have been targeting for decades?

GOOD. GOOD, GOOD, GOOD! A thousand times, GOOD.

Because that's exactly what I voted for.

Update: the left started renaming bases for BLM propaganda reasons and no one complained about the "billions" in costs.

Changing Fort Bragg's name was symbolic.

Why did they even bother? It was just symbolic.
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