Trump to Sign Order Renaming the Defense Department as the Department of War
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It's personal taste, of course, but Department of Defense sounds mealy-mouthed to me. I actually like the idea of going back to the original name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_in_Nineteen_Eighty-...
So given that little bit of context renaming the DoD makes a lot of sense.
I’ve always been irritated that we called it that when it was active in so many non defensive theaters.
Considering he is currently deploying armed forces in a non-war "defense" of our own cities, the rebrand is actually quite ironic.
It's time for Congress to crack down on this outlandish behavior. Yes, Trump is president. No, Trump did not win by a landslide. No, current conservative grievances and policies are not blessed by god. No, Trump is not king. This kind of behavior needs to stop. The US is a republic, not a monarchy, let's keep it that way.
> The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States
That being said, I think it is silly to rename it, but I think a case can be made that he has the Constitutional authority to do so.
I suppose we're also in need of a Department of the Navy as well, based on your excerpt, but again, Constitutional words don't often have the semantics one might think.
But beyond all that, it's great that we've President Trump to make these hard decisions for us. No president in my lifetime (first voted in 1980 presidential election) would have made the right decision here, not even President Reagan. There would have been hearings, tense meetings with authority figure like the Speaker of the House and various billionaires, and the press would not have let go of it. It would have dominated news cycles for weeks. Can you imagine the punditry if G.W. Bush had done this? But Trump makes the right decision, billionaires are happy, pundits are happy, we just see non-biased, factual reporting. I hope that Trump's successor is equally correct in all these decisions. I don't want to return to the squabbling of the past.
Domain-Driven Design explicitly emphasizes the importance of naming things properly with the notion of Ubiquitous Language. If you work in the domain of, say, invasion, killing, bombing, genocide, you probably shouldn’t name a Department of War as Defense Department. Department of War would be a more concise and specific option.
I think it’s more likely that he’s being blackmailed by the intelligence community or covering up for his friends.
Honestly tired of this being used as some sort of exculpatory instant win. There are a handful of very good reasons this would not have happened. We won't know until he does the things his proxies promised.
And obviously covering for his allies is pretty terrible on its own.