For those who don't know it, this is the name the department has had for most of its history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_...
This is a good name even if you are against wars like I am.
Calling it "Defense" just gives the wrong impression that most of the money goes towards "defending" ourselves instead of attacking others. We should avoid euphemisms when naming government agencies.
For once, reducing the budget for the war department doesn't sound bad
The Nobel Peace Prize, which he really wanted, isn't a priority anymore, is it?
That defense domain's been in use for like the whole mainstream history of the Internet probably right? That's a big one to just redirect all of a sudden. Is it just the public website redirected or every email address and whatever from history? Uggh
I like this lack of euphemisms.
Can they change the ATF to the Department of Uncategorized Federal Overreach?
Also, NOAA should be called the Weather Force.
Will defense contractors be known as war contractors from now on?
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
― George Orwell, 1984Did congress declare war on someone while I was napping? Just sort of curious if we're officially at war or if this is one of those "War on Drugs" or "War on Poverty" things.
What an ugly logo, and the kerning is all wrong. Man!
It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
Approving money for war is harder than approving money for defense. I don't think it was his intention. He wants to sound masculine and brave, like Putin seems to do for him.
I'm not sure at all about anything anyway. But right now, I have friends working for "Defense AI related" projects and knowing their interests in AI, I'm sure all the companies are doing is to stamp AI-ready label in the same missiles.
Remember that anyone can say that a linear model is AI.
I think this is my least favorite stupid thing in 2025 and it has a lot of competition.
It is true they're all about cutting waste, they just saved 4 bytes!
From Tom Nichols (a now-retired prof at the US Naval War College):
> It is almost impossible to overstate the inanity of this move. The United States has a Department of Defense for a reason. It was called the “War” Department until 1947, when the dictates of a new and more dangerous world required the creation of a much larger military organization than any in American history. Harry Truman and the American leaders who destroyed the Axis, and who now were facing the Soviet empire, realized that national security had become a larger undertaking than the previous American tradition of moving, as needed, between discrete conditions of “war” and “peace.”
> These leaders understood that America could no longer afford the isolationist luxury of militarizing itself during times of threat and then making soldiers train with wooden sticks when the storm clouds passed. Now, they knew, the security of the country would be a daily undertaking, a matter of ongoing national defense, in which the actual exercise of military force would be only part of preserving the freedom and independence of the United States and its allies.
* https://archive.today/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arch...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Nichols_(academic)
The current president seems to think that this change is important, but Nichols goes over some previous presidents:
> That name was good enough for Truman, who served in combat in World War I and dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan. And it was good enough for President Dwight Eisenhower, the former supreme allied commander, who oversaw the largest military operations ever undertaken in all of human history.
> It was also good enough for John F. Kennedy, who served his country as a naval officer and nearly got killed during World War II. It was good enough for Lyndon B. Johnson, who won the Silver Star for his military service, and then, as commander in chief, embroiled the United States in a decade-long war in Southeast Asia. It was good enough for Naval Reserve officer Richard Nixon, who took over Johnson’s war and unleashed the fury of American bombers overseas. It was good enough for Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, both former Navy officers. It was good enough for Ronald Reagan, a former Army officer who as president pushed through a huge program of military expansion and modernization. It was good enough for his successor, George H. W. Bush, a decorated naval aviator who was shot down during combat in the Pacific.
* Ibid
Truth in advertising.
Marginally better than redirecting to `love.gov`.
A savings of 4 UTF-8 bytes per!
Where is DOGE? Isn't their mission to eliminate waste and fraud. This lateral decision without congressional input sure sounds expensive in a Defense (WAR) budget that is ballooning under The Trump Administration. Add to this the cost of using our military for landscaping projects at an estimated at a million+ per day.That estimate is only from the Lod Angeles occupation.
Amnesia.gov
A top contender for “not the onion”.
> Hegseth concurred with Trump's contention.
> "We changed the name after World War II from the Department of War to the Department of Defense and … we haven't won a major war since," Hegseth said.
Putin is having a laugh, having entire US administration dancing to his tune.
thanks for saving 4 letters when i type it
Great. Now rename the Department of Health & Human Services.
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Rebranding an entire department under the US government cannot be cheap. That does not sound like something a frugal government does without a very good reason.