President Donald Trump is allegedly planning to sign an executive order to rename the Ministry of Defense on Friday, “the Ministry of War”, said White House official on Thursday to Reuters.
According to the White House fact, the order would allow Minister of Defense Pete Hegset, the Ministry of Defense and subordinate officials to use secondary titles such as “War Minister”, “War Ministry” and “War Secretary” in official correspondence and public communication.
Since entering the office in January, Trump has decided to rename a number of places and institutions, including the Gulf of Mexico, and restore the original names of the military foundations that were changed after the protests of racial justice.
Changes in the name of the department are rare and require the approval of congress, but Trump’s fellow Republicans hold the lean majority in the Senate and the House of Representatives, and the leaders of the party’s congress showed little appetite to oppose some of the Trump initiatives.
“War department”
The US Department of Defense was called the war department until 1949, when Congress compromised the army, the Navy and the Air Force after World War II, Reuters reported.
The name was partially selected to indicate that at nuclear age the US focused on the prevention of wars, according to historians.
The change in the name will again be expensive and will require brands and head updates that are used not only by the Pentagon officials in Washington, DC, but also by military installations around the world.
The efforts of former President Joe Biden rename the nine foundations that appreciated the confederation and confederation leaders were ready to cost $ 39 million. At the beginning of this year, this effort turned HegSeth.
The Trump administration team, known as the Ministry of Government Efficiency (DOGE), tried to cut the Pentagon cuts in an effort to save money.
“Why not give this money to support military families or employ diplomats that help prevent conflicts in the first place?” stated the democratic senator Tammy Duckworth, a military veteran and a member of the Committee on the Armed Services of the Senate.
“Because Trump would rather use our army to get political points than to strengthen our national security and support our brave service and their families – therefore,” she told Reuters.
Long in production
Critics stated that the planned change of name is not only costly but unnecessary distraction for the Pentagon.
HegSeth said that the change in the title is not “not only about words – it is a combat ethos”.
This year he introduced one of the closest allies of Trump’s Congress, Republican Chairman of the Committee on the Supervision of the Representatives James Comer, a bill that would facilitate the president reorganization and renaming agencies.
“We’ll just do it. I’m sure the congress will go if we need it … Defense is too defensive. We want to be defensive, but we also want to be offensive if we have to be,” Trump said last month.
Trump also mentioned the possibility of changing the name in June, when he suggested that the name was originally changed as “politically correct”.
But for some Trump administration, efforts are returning much further.
During the first term Trump, the current director of the FBI Kash Patel, who was briefly in the Pentagon, had to log out on his e-mails: “The head of the Secretary of Defense and War Department.”
“I consider this to honor the history and inheritance of the Ministry of Defense,” Patel told Reuters in 2021.
(With Reuters inputs)
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