President Trump on Monday returned the Defense Department to his former name, war department – is “very defensive” while debating the name held since the 1940s.
The President told reporters during the oval office event on Monday afternoon, “We want to be defensive, but we want to be aggressive, if we also have to happen,” the President told reporters during the Oval Office event on Monday afternoon.
Mr. Trump tested the war department during a series of public events at the White House on Monday, including a meeting with South Korean President Lee J. Mayung. He argued that under the old name of the United States was “incredible history of victory”, which mentioned the First World War and Second World War.
The President said that the possibility of change on the first Monday will be “in the next week or more.” Hours later, he said that he would leave it to the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: “We will do it one or two times. And if everyone likes it, we will make that change.”
Asked if the Congress would need to sign the restoration of the agency’s old name, because the MPs had Initial name changedMr. Trump Said He did not think that: “We are just going to do this. I am sure if we need it, the Congress will go with it. I don’t think we need it too.”
The President has teased a name change for the largest agency of the federal government for months, referring to Hegseth at one point as his “secretary of war”. Previous month In a post on truth social. During the June 1 press conference, he claimed that the Old War Department was released to Monikar because “we were politically correct.”
Why was the war department changed to the Defense Department?
Its name was changed to World War II, which is part of the widespread reorganization of the US Army that placed the army and the Navy in a single cabinet level agency.
War Department – which oversees the army – Back dated For the first term of President George Washington, but in the late 1790s, Congress Made a different The Navy Department and, to take care of the new country’s naval forces and, LaterMarine Corps. Those two agencies worked differently for more than a century.
President Harry Truman pushed various branches of service to add to the National Defense Department in 1947, stating that the step was “required to cut the cost and also increase our national security.”
Agencies were combined under a single secretary in a single 1947 law It also formed the National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency. Two years later, Congress Agency nominated Department of Defense.
