You got me. The best I could posit was to further the Trump plan to force US allies and not allies to team up together, isolating America from the taint of glo

You got me. The best I could posit was to further the Trump plan to force US allies and not allies to team up together, isolating America from the taint of globalism. For a more informed opinion, US Historian Heather Cox Richardson had much to say; an excerpt being: … In 1949, Congress replaced the National Military Establishment name, whose initials sounded unfortunately like “enemy,” with Department of Defense. The new name emphasized that the Allied Powers of World War II would join together to focus on deterring wars by standing against offensive wars launched by big countries against their smaller neighbors. Although Trump told West Point graduates this year that “[t]he military's job is to dominate any foe and annihilate any threat to America, anywhere, anytime, and any place,” in fact, the stated mission of the Department of Defense is “to provide the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation’s security.” … Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has pushed the change because he sees it as part of his campaign to spread a “warrior ethos” at the Pentagon. Today he said the name change was part of “restoring intentionality to the use of force…. We’re going to go on offense, not just on defense. Maximum lethality, not tepid legality, violent effect, not politically correct. We’re going to raise up warriors, not just defenders. So this War Department, Mr. President, just like America, is back.” In 1947, when the country dropped the “War Department” name, the chief of staff of the U.S. Army—the highest-ranking officer on active duty—was five-star general Dwight D. Eisenhower. It is unusual for anyone to suggest that Eisenhower, who led the Allied troops in World War II, was insufficiently committed to military strength. Indeed, the men who changed the name to “Defense Department” and tried to create a rules-based international order did so precisely because war was not a game to them. Having seen the carnage of war not just on the battlefield but among civilians who faced firebombing, death camps, homelessness, starvation, and the obscenity of atomic weapons, they hoped to find a way to make sure insecure, power-hungry men could not start another war easily. … https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-5-2025 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-5-2025 It's worth revisiting a prime example of day drinker Hegseth personally demonstrating "restoring intentionality to the use of force…" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMrVdFnjEjs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMrVdFnjEjs