Meanwhile, his secretary of defense, in between haranguing generals about physical fitness and ordering the U.S. Navy to engage in the killing of criminals without trial, has renamed the Department of Defense “the Department of War” (illegally, as it happens). In 10 years’ time, the maps will say “the Gulf of Mexico,” and the odds are good that a Democratic administration will yet again rename the Department of Defense and the forts. The U.S. Army’s most lethal helicopter is the Apache, the Navy’s primary long-range missile is the Tomahawk, and a century ago, William Tecumseh Sherman, one of the most formidable Civil War generals, bore as his middle name that of one of the greatest Indian warriors Americans ever encountered.
Author: Eliot A. Cohen
Published at: 2025-12-21 20:18:38
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