One the First World War, we won the Second World War, we won everything before that and in between,

and then we decided to go woke and we change the name to Department of Defense.

So we're going to Department of War, and I'd like to ask our Secretary of War to say a few words.

Pete Hacks said, I think it's a much more appropriate name,

especially in light of where the world is right now.

We have the strongest military in the world.

We have the greatest equipment in the world.

We have the greatest manufacturers of equipment by far.

There's nobody to even compete.

And you see that with this and so many other things.

The patriots are the best. Every element of the military, we make the best by far.

Begin tonight with Donald Trump's use of the American military to advance an authoritarian vision,

sidestepping congressional oversight, and putting U.S. service members in the middle of his politics. Today, Donald Trump signed an

executive order creating a secondary name for the Department of Defense, calling it the quote-unquote

Department of War. An official name change would require an act of Congress, which is why we won't

be using that name on our show. Words matter, people,

and the administration is telling us in no uncertain terms how it intends to wield the world's

most lethal fighting force. Indeed, the Department of Defense was called the Department of War

until an amendment to the National Security Act in 1949. The nation had just been through two world wars

and tensions with Soviet Russia

were escalating. The name

Department of Defense made

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