One of his shots Donald Trumpis to rename the Ministry of Defense of the USA in a war ministry.
The Trump government seems to be looking for ways to rename the Ministry of Defense to a war ministry, according to a White House official, following the president’s insistence on reinstating a name that had ceased to be used in the US since 1947, the Wall Street report said in a report.
The old name of the largest US government ministry could be reinstated by an act of Congress, but according to the official, the White House is considering other ways to make the change.
Trump has reinstated the idea many times since he has taken on duties. “As a Ministry of War, we won everything. We won everything, “he said Monday, referring to the wars that were given before the creation of the Ministry of Defense after World War II. “I think we should go back to it.”
The Pentagon had begun to draw up legislative proposals for the change from the first weeks of Trump’s second term, according to a former official. One of the ideas was to ask Congress to authorize the old name in the event of a national emergency, as well as the revival of the title “Minister of War” for the ministry’s senior political official.
‘The old name has a louder tone’, Trump said on Monday, at a meeting at the Oval Office with South Korean President Lee Jae-Mung and added that the change would be “about next week”.
The structure of the US Army has evolved significantly since the Ministry of War was created in 1789, and with it the name of the service that oversees it has changed with it. Initially, the Ministry of War was responsible for the army, while a separate ministry of Navy managed naval forces and marines.
Following World War II, in an effort to increase efficiency, President Harry S. Truman put the Armed Forces under a single organization, initially called “National Military Establishment”, with a bill passed by Congress in 1947. A new Air Force in a single organization, led by a political defense minister.
Congress abolished the “national military structure” in 1949 and gave it the new name “Ministry of Defense”, providing the Minister, at the level of a cabinet, greater power to oversee bodies, including supplies. This has caused concern that increased responsibilities could turn the Minister of Defense into a “military dictator”, according to an article by the Los Angeles Daily News in July 1949.
Trump has stated that his concern is that Today’s title is not ‘warlike’ enough. In April, at an event at the Oval Office, he said that the Minister of Defense was formerly known as the Minister of War. “They changed it when we became a little more politically correct,” he said.
He reinstated the idea of reviving the title at a NATO meeting in The Hague in June. “It was once called Minister of War,” he said in a rally of foreign leaders. “Maybe we have to start thinking about the change.”
Defense Minister Pitt Hegsheth commented on Tuesday at a cabinet meeting, saying the name “Ministry of Defense” “just doesn’t sound right”.