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The assessment that the process is "healthy" is dubious. Frequently we rename things to something fundamentally dishonest. The Department of War sounds so mean
by nitwit005 2y ago
The assessment that the process is "healthy" is dubious. Frequently we rename things to something fundamentally dishonest.
The Department of War sounds so mean. It's the Department of Defense now.
- philwelch 2y agoThe Department of War was not renamed the “Department of Defense”. Up to and during the Second World War, the Department of War and Department of the Navy were both cabinet level departments, with the DoW having control of the Army and the DoN having control of the Navy. The National Security Act of 1947 reorganized the US military by splitting the Department of War into the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force and making those two departments, as well as the Department of the Navy, subordinate to an overall Department of Defense. (This was also when the Air Force became a separate branch from the Army.)
- nitwit005 2y agoYou're forgetting it was initially the National Military Establishment, which was later renamed to the Department of Defense, because they liked that name better.
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoWords shape meaning though. "Defense" changes how people (including those on the inside) think about the job.
- nitwit005 2y agoThis article is discussing the treadmill. People just got used to the new term.