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gchamonlivetoday at 7:00 AM9 repliesview on HN

Why DoD and not DoW?


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enlightenstoday at 7:14 AM

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

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DowsingSpoontoday at 7:17 AM

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.

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hellzbellz123today at 9:10 AM

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

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ikiddtoday at 7:28 AM

Gulf of Mexico.

OJFordtoday at 11:13 AM

Perhaps because the latter sounds hilariously childish?

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s-ytoday at 9:38 AM

law of triviality on full display

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croestoday at 10:20 AM

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

Pretty ironic given their anti-woke agenda

GaryBlutotoday at 7:56 AM

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