I bet they egg each other on. I can picture Hegseth giving Trump the idea for Department of War. A lot of Trump's actions are recycled and amplified from his first term. Look at Holman and Miller for example. Department of War is a new one, as far as I know.
Originally Posted by Turner2099
Uh .. NO. it was originally the Dept. of War. under George Washington. Truman renamed it the Dept. of Defense in 1949 after WWII.
https://www.history.com/articles/dep...e-name-changes
When was the Department of War created?
On August 7, 1789, during the very first session of Congress, President George Washington signed
legislation creating the Department of War. Also known as the War Office (a term borrowed from the British), the Department of War was primarily in charge of the Army. The Navy got its own Cabinet-level department in 1798, which also oversaw the Marines.
The first secretary of war was
Henry Knox, a close aide to Washington during the
Revolutionary War who was already serving as secretary at war under the
Articles of Confederation.
The new Department of War replaced the Board of War and Ordnance, which Washington established in 1776 to administer the military during the Revolution.
What’s the significance of the National Security Act of 1947?
World War II required unprecedented levels of coordination across the different branches of the U.S. military to fight on land, sea and air. After the war—as the
Soviet Union emerged as a threat—President
Harry Truman signed the
National Security Act of 1947, a major restructuring of U.S. military administration.
First, the act replaced the Department of War with the Department of the Army. Next, it created the U.S. Air Force as its own branch, separate from the Army. Then all four branches of the military were merged under a single organization called the National Military Establishment.
Under the 1947 law, the head of the National Military Establishment (NME) was the secretary of defense, a new Cabinet-level position. The defense secretary had to be a
civilian or retired from the military for 10 years (later lowered to seven years). The first secretary of defense was
James Forrestal, former secretary of the Navy.
When did it become the Department of Defense?
The National Military Establishment didn’t last long. Just two years later, Truman signed a series of amendments to the National Security Act that replaced it with the Department of Defense.
this is a symbolic name change which means nothing at all
Rage? LOL. I’m in complete agreement with blowing smugglers to smithereens. Giddy ≠ rage. The only rage is from you apologists who apparently care more about foreign cartels, who have no constitutional rights, especially in international waters, than Americans. Fuck em. They could be drawn and quartered in Times Square on pay per view for all I care.
Originally Posted by Jacuzzme
let them believe these were poor innocent fishermen just struggling to make a living deep sea fishing. they need to believe it to feed their TDS fixation.
