Political allegiances aside, the naming of the Department of Defense started to rankle me in the bureaucratic posturing after 9/11. I appreciate the Posse Comi

Political allegiances aside, the naming of the Department of Defense started to rankle me in the bureaucratic posturing after 9/11. I appreciate the Posse Comitatus Act, "the best defense is a good offense", and the rename in 1947, but when we created a whole new department called "Homeland Security" because Rumsfeld and the Department of Defense didn't want to own the mission of "defense", the old name just struck me as too disingenuous/Orwellian. I am a bit nervous about branding the DoD back to the Department of War though. ... Perhaps we should rename it to what General/President Eisenhower warned us it was, "Department of the Military Industrial Complex"? Half-kidding.