Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Friday authorizing the US Department of Defense to rebrand itself as the department of war, the White House said, as part of an attempt to formalize the name change without an act of Congress. The order will designate department of war as a secondary title, an administration official said, as a way to get around the need for congressional approval to formally rename a federal agency.
With President Donald Trump's backing, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has waged a war on what he calls wokeness in the military. Regarding the painting of Lee, a West Point graduate, The Times reported: It was not clear how West Point could return General Lee's portrait to the library without violating the law, which emerged from the protests that followed George Floyd's killing by Minneapolis police officers in 2020.
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that National Guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump's law enforcement crackdown will be armed, the Pentagon said Friday. The Defense Department didn't immediately offer any other details about the new development or why it was needed. The step is a escalation in Trump's intervention into policing in the nation's capital and comes as nearly 2,000 National Guard members are stationed in the city, with the arrival this week of hundreds of troops from several Republican-led states.
The Ranger School curriculum requires extreme physical fitness, including running, lifting heavy weights, and performing strenuous activities in a limited time. It poses a significant challenge that sees high dropout rates.
Hegseth stated, 'Everything starts and ends with warriors, from training to the battlefield.' He emphasized abandoning 'wokeness' and returning to a focus on traditional military values.