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00:00And then, you know, as we broaden our scope from the tragedy here at home to the rest of the world,
00:04we know that President Trump and his cabinet has been meeting for hours at a time.
00:08And one of those cabinet positions is the Secretary of Defense, a guy, Pete Hegseth, we know.
00:13But I guess President Trump wants to take that away, that title, and give him a new one called the Secretary of War
00:18to rename the DOD the War Department.
00:21And it's been that way since 1947.
00:24This is a quote from White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly.
00:27She says, as President Trump said, our military should be focused on offense, not just defense,
00:33which is why he has prioritized warfighters at the Pentagon instead of DEI and woke ideology.
00:39Stay tuned.
00:40So, yeah, the idea is to create that cultural change that Pete Hegseth literally wrote the book on
00:45to get the people inside the DOD focused more on their job, which is to deter, defeat, and sometimes destroy the enemy.
00:54Maybe it's, like, literally a brand change to create a new culture.
00:58And from that perspective, I support it 100%.
01:01If you look at the history of the War Department, it changed in 1947.
01:05Why?
01:06Why did they change the name?
01:06So there's two reasons why.
01:08There's a reason why they changed the name, and then there's a reason why they changed it again to DOD.
01:12They first changed it to National Military Establishment, NME.
01:17And then for a few years, everybody's like, we literally are calling them the enemy.
01:21Like, that's the name.
01:23And so then they changed it in 1949.
01:25They amended it and changed it to the Department of Defense.
01:26But the reason why is real easy.
01:28The War Department was basically our Army.
01:30Then we had the Department of Navy, Department of Air Force, and they had to put them all together after the World War II
01:36because technology had emerged so much they had to be able to communicate and be more, more, what do you call it, upward?
01:42I can't think of the word for it.
01:43But basically, to bring them all in under one umbrella.
01:46So you've got the War Department, Navy Department, Air Force Department.
01:49We're not going to call them the enemy, the NME.
01:51So what are we going to call them?
01:52And it came about the Department of Defense.
01:53There was also a movement to say, hey, we've got nuclear power now, so let's try to bring the tensions down.
01:59Let's talk about this is to defend ourselves, not wage war.
02:02It was a time of relative pacifism going into the 50s.
02:06Obviously, Korean War was happening.
02:08Almost nobody was talking about it.
02:10So there were some political reasons, but also some just very technical reasons.
02:13Hey, the War Department means the Army.
02:15We need something different here.
02:16Your thoughts?
02:18I was eager to hear your thoughts.
02:22You love war.
02:23I want Department of Peace.
02:25There you go.
02:26Do I have any takers on the Department of Peace?
02:29Listen, I think we should be deterring wars.
02:33I understand.
02:34By the way, it's a great name, Department of War.
02:36From a marketing point of view, you're probably going to attract war fighters, which is, I think, what President Trump and Pete Exeth actually want.
02:44I get that.
02:45But I also think I'm tired of wars, and I think we need to start focusing on peace.
02:53And I do think President Trump is doing that and deterring it in many ways.
02:58And so I wish that the name reflected that outcome, which we all want, because I do think we're war-weary.
03:05By the way, I also think we should start showing what wars look like.
03:09We've ended wars, like Vietnam, because we saw pictures of war.
03:13Remember Napalm, the little girl running down the street?
03:17When we saw what war looked like, we decided we wanted less of them.
03:22And then when we cover up what war looks like, like this drone warfare that we're seeing, we should see what it looks like.
03:29First person, we've got a video game point of view on war now that we've never had before.
03:33Agreed.
03:33I'll just say one thing.
03:34Department of Peace, nobody started more wars or lost more wars than UN peacekeepers.
03:40So maybe that's not it either.
03:41Fair enough.
03:41I don't want to go down that path.
03:42Fair enough.
03:43And, of course, the only person who has the credibility to change it to the Department of War would be Donald Trump, because he's never started a war.
03:51He's ended it.
03:52And the War Department should be in a glass case that never comes out unless we really, really need it.
04:00And I like using language that doesn't pussyfoot around what it is that we're talking about.
04:05I agree with that.
04:06We haven't started wars.
04:07We are funding wars, and we should talk about that as well.
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