Is ‘Department of War’ a Symbolic Bluff for Declining National Strength?

Reflections | Like Trump’s US, imperial China used to have a Ministry of War

For centuries, the ‘Three Departments, Six Ministries’ system, which included a Ministry of War, was at the heart of China’s governance.

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On September 5, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename the Department of Defense (DoD) to the Department of War (DoW). As one of the justifications for this change, Trump pointed out that the founders of the United States established the DoW as such to “win wars, inspiring awe and confidence in our Nation’s military, and ensuring freedom and prosperity for all Americans”. He also claimed that the US supposedly “won the War…

Is ‘Department of War’ a symbolic bluff for declining national strength?

Trump and Hegseth’s shiny new Department of War signs are proudly symbolic but disconnected from the untold amounts of war materials needed to sustain a long-term, multi-front global conflict.

How will the Department of War differ from the Defense Department?

Although President Trump has dubbed a new Department of War, he prefers conflicts that promise quick victories, not messy entanglements, as wars can be.

Topic of the Week: Department of Defense Gets Rebranded

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Confucius and Trump's Department of War

On September 5, President Trump signed an executive order making The Department of War an official secondary name for The Department of Defense, seemingly with the expectation that legislation will make the switch official and eliminate that Department of Defense name entirely down the road.  The change was accompanied with the usual macho swagger that has become the norm in his second administration, with talking points about this name clearly …