President Trump and his administration sure love renaming things. We have the Gulf of America, which even Google Maps now acknowledges. Here in the Great Land, Denali is back, officially, to being Mt. McKinley, although opinions of Alaskans on the matter are decidedly mixed.
Now, in an interesting twist, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has taken to his official X account to ask if the Department of Defense should be renamed to the “Department of War.”
Better name?
Have my thoughts…welcome yours. #PeoplesPentagon
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) March 22, 2025
As of this writing, “Department of War” is winning, 53.6 to 46.4 percent.
This merits a bit of thought. At the founding of the nation, the War Department (originally called the War Office) was one of the very first United States Cabinet departments. It was responsible for oversight of all the armed…
