PS DefenSe in the us.
It was the department of war but the government decided that that name was too honest, makes the corpos look bad too
It’s a fairly recent development. It was created as the department of war by Washington and remained that until 1947 where it split into the departments of the air force and army, joining the already existing department of the navy, which together made up the national military establishment (NME), which was renamed 2 years later to the DOD.
Oddly enough, this also coincides with the time when the US military was more explicitly about offence rather than defense. After the Revolution, people mistrusted the federal government having a large standing army. The army was raised up in time of war, and everyone went home when it was over.
Post-WW2 was the first time the US kept a large army in “peace”. Been that way ever since.
The US used to have the Department of War. Then it split up after WWII into the departments of the army, navy, air force and the overseeing department was renamed the department of defense. Probably a branding thing.
edit: a word
100% branding. Cant go around admitting to attack and start wars. Its defense, guys. On other countries soil. Right?
Gentlemen! There will be no fighting in the War Room!
You just realized that?
- Military-industrial complex
- War machine
- Merchants of death
There are many names.
“The Ministry of Peace”
-Orwell
Please respect and enjoy the peace ☮️
- Emperor Cleon, who ended the galactic wars
Protecting your own country doesn’t always involve actively declaring war with everyone. Often it’s economic or cyber infrastructure hardening related
I’ve always heard to it referred to as the “military industrial complex”. Eisenhower tried to warn us about it in the 1950s.
Regardless of what you call it, making the production of weapons an ‘industry’ is psychotic.
let’s look at how well it worked out when a country turned over it’s nuclear weapons and relied on treaties to keep it safe.
It is a war industry for the Western countries because the war is never on their soil. It is a defence industry for everyone else.
yeah russia sure is defending the shit out of itself invading ukraine.
I get it, western countries bad, but for fucks sake have a bit of perspective.
NATO expansionism is the root cause of this war. NATO instigated this war and Russia got baited.
