The Department of Defense is now officially the Department of War.
Which, among other things, is a lot more honest.
And the Left is already losing its mind. 🧵
2/ Trump: “Defense. What are we, defense? Why are we defense? It used to be called the Department of War, and it had a stronger sound. We won WWI, WWII, everything. Now we’re just defenders? I don’t know.”
🔥 He's not wrong. We've lost all but one war since the change.
3/ From 1789–1947, the Army was under the Department of War. The Navy was separate. The Marines were/are part of it. The Air Force was part of the Army.
Then Truman merged them all into a new Department of Defense. "Efficiency."