Great point. Labeling it as 'defense' instead of 'war' might be one of the more brilliant marketing tricks in the last century.

No one likes war, everyone loves defense. Something something expanded surveillance under the guise of counter-terrorism post-9/11.

> No one likes war, everyone loves defense. Something something expanded surveillance under the guise of counter-terrorism post-9/11

It was renamed after WWII. In part because smart minds realised that war between industrialised civilisations had ceased to be an accretive endeavour since sometime between Napoleon and the Kaiser.