Donald Trump’s ‘Department of War’ will just deliver bloodshed and destruction | Judith Levine
by Judith Levine from US news | The Guardian on (#6ZW8H)
The agency celebrates the US and the president as aggressor, conqueror and unrestrained international lawbreaker
On Friday, Donald Trump signed an executive order restoring the Department of Defense to its original name, the Department of War.
That name had a stronger sound", Trump told reporters in August. As Department of War we won everything," he added, and I think we're going to have to go back to that." In June, at the Nato summit, he called Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, his secretary of war".
Judith Levine is a Brooklyn journalist and essayist, a contributing writer to the Intercept and the author of five books
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