{"id":136148,"date":"2025-09-09T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136148"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:30:08","slug":"department-of-war-us-defence-needs-deeper-reforms-not-a-name-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136148","title":{"rendered":"Department of War? US defence needs deeper reforms, not a name change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump has ordered that the Department of Defence be renamed the Department of War, harking back to pre-1947 America. This is puzzling, to say the least. A name change will simply cause administrative disruption, burdening the Pentagon\u2019s bloated bureaucracy with no meaningful improvements in military performance.<br \/>\nAcross a sprawling bureaucracy of more than 2 million people, every logo, document, website, plaque and building sign would have to be updated. Up to billions of&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/world-opinion\/article\/3324763\/department-war-us-defence-needs-deeper-reforms-not-name-change?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump has ordered that the Department of Defence be renamed the Department of War, harking back to pre-1947 America. This is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136148"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}