The War Bureau was called for government agencies from the establishment of the country, but was changed to the Department of Defense during the reorganization after World War II.
Trump lands at NATO amidst a fragile Israel and Iran ceasefire
President Donald Trump arrived at the NATO summit in the Netherlands, focusing on defense spending and a sensitive Iran-Israel ceasefire.
- Trump proposes to revert the Pentagon’s name to the War Division to avoid being “political correct.”
- The Pentagon’s name changed after World War II, due to the integration of the military sectors of the Army, Navy and Air Force.
President Donald Trump proposed changing the Pentagon’s name to pre-war Monica, the War Bureau, after successful bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities.
“You know it was once called the Secretary of War,” Trump told reporters on June 25th at the end of a NATO meeting in the Netherlands. “For a few weeks, we’re going to call it because we feel like warriors.”
Trump’s comments came after he explained the US military’s bombing mission against Iran on June 21. He spoke about a B-2 stealth bomber that travels 36 hours from a Missouri base and hits its target “fully” without the benefit of the moonlight.
“I think there was a big victory here,” Trump said.
Trump then introduced Marco Rubio and Pete Hegses as “secretary of state and secretary of war.” Trump said the name of the war division, the predecessor of the Department of Defense, appears to be the wall of the Eisenhower Executive Office next to the White House, where the agency once housed.
“Then we were politically correct and they called it Secretary of Defense,” Trump said. “Maybe we have to think about changing that, but that’s how we feel.”
The country had a war division since it was established until the aftermath of World War II, when the Army, Navy and Air Force Departments were each given cabinet positions. However, in 1949, Congress integrated these organizations into the Department of Defense.
