[gchamonlive]

Why DoD and not DoW?

[enlightens]

Only Congress can change the name of a federal department, so the Department of Defense is still properly called that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14347

[hdgvhicv]

Only Congress can declare war but here we are with the department of war bombing a foreign country and capturing and assassinating foreign leaders.

[gchamonlive]

However if you go to https://www.usa.gov/agencies/u-s-department-of-defense and click in the link for the https://www.defense.gov/ you get redirected to https://www.war.gov/

So I think a bit of confusion on my part is justified.

[torginus]

'Power is the perception of power'

[almosthere]

That part isn't sited. It is likely not true.

[DowsingSpoon]

The Department of Defense was established by the National Security Act of 1947. If the Congress wanted to change the name then they would pass another law to do so.

An executive order is not law.

[throw10920]

Even though the the DoD was created via an act of Congress, as POTUS is the head of the Executive Branch and the CiC of the armed forces, could you make an argument that a name change can be done by executive order? (setting aside whether or not the new proposed name is stupid)

[hellzbellz123]

because most americans do not want war, at least id hope, so calling it that seems pretty short sited (maybe until you continually do that 'war' thing), if you want the citizens to look positively on your spending it should probably be for defense not war, again, at least i should hope. im just a dumb "lib" whatever that means

[Finbel]

On the other hand calling it "Department of Defense" seems quite whitewashing of what it actually does.

[ikidd]

Gulf of Mexico.

[rapnie]

DOW was already taken, and that is the one to watch when it all comes crashing down?

[rmm78]

>Why DoD and not DoW?

Reddit/Bluesky brigade is in full force here, that's why

[OJFord]

Perhaps because the latter sounds hilariously childish?

[nashashmi]

Actually that was the original name. And it was a more honest name.

[s-y]

law of triviality on full display

[ruszki]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_De...

Stoping and questioning why somebody uses DoD or DoW is way more telling than using any of those. Especially that both are perfectly fine, even officially.

A square was renamed in my home city about 20 years ago. We still use the original one usually, even teens know that name. I use a form of the original name of our main stadium which was renamed almost 30 years ago. Heck, some people use names of streets which are not official for almost 40 years now. Btw, the same with departments of the government. Nobody follows how they called at the moment, because nobody really cares. That’s the strange when somebody cares.

[wqaatwt]

By using the actual legal and official name of the department (which Trump didn’t and couldn’t change)?

[croes]

Because using DoW is woke when the legal name is DoD.

Pretty ironic given their anti-woke agenda