I'm pretty sure they renamed it the departement of war, for some reason

ethagnawl an hour ago | parent | next [-]

There is. They're insecure man-children who played too much Call of Duty.

dingaling 43 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think it's accurate.

"War" is the application of violence for political ends. "Defense" is only a subset of that.

	▲	nolok 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, the idea is that we wanted to move focus from might make right to deterrance and international law. It's why the UN charter prohibits agressive war but allow self defense, and why the US renamed its departement of war to department of defense in 1947. So yeah, sure, in the current attitude and action that are very much "hey let's go back to that great time where we openly agreed war of conquest are a good thing" they have it makes sense.

GolfPopper an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>I'm pretty sure they renamed it the daprtement of war, for some reason.

Nope. Actually renaming it was too long and complicated a process, so instead they're pretending they renamed it.

Terr_ an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

*sigh* No, it wasn't not renamed, in the same way that a cape-wearing 4-year-old isn't actually changing his legal name to SuperBadguyKillerMan.

	▲	nolok 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I mean, apparently they didn't legally but he did sign an executive order, and they do use war.gov ; so it's a de facto versus de jure situation.