What is the name: Will it be the “Ministry of War” in Trump in reality?
Since the Pentagon assumed, Minister Beit Higseth has been developing policies to show what he called “new warriors ethics” – including earlier this month, renamed the Ministry of Defense as the “Ministry of War”.
Some of these moves were cosmetics. The “Ministry of War” seals were installed on the walls and platform in the American military bases all over the world. After years of allowing precise shades of lipstick, female members were asked last week not to wear it, while military men were informed that if they did not fly daily, they may be Be forced Service.
Moreover, analysts are monitored to see if the Pentagon’s renament voltage indicates a more aggressive approach to military action. In announcing the change of the name of the Ministry of Defense – it is still unofficial without conducting Congress – the United States will go “in the attack, not only to defense. Far fatal, not lukewarm legitimacy. Violent influence, and not true political.”
Why did we write this
The renames of the Ministry of Defense comes as well as other interventional movements, such as bombing Iran and amazing boats in the Caribbean. The main question is whether these measures indicate the position of positions or the greatest shift from President Donald Trump’s position, “America first”.
In some respects, President Donald Trump seemed more ready to deploy the army than it was during his first administration. He bombed drug boats in the Caribbean Sea region, one -side attacked Iranian nuclear sites, and sent the National Guard forces into two American cities. He has also suggested that he may return to us forces to Afghanistan and comprehensive threats about Greenland’s invasion and Panama.
However, we have not yet seen whether all of this represents a new approach to external conflict, such as a kind of force of strength. Currently, despite the most aggressive situations, the president often desires to avoid expensive tangles look sound.
“There is a great difference in the tone between the first and second Trump departments,” says retired Colonel Mark Kansian, the chief adviser to the Ministry of Defense and Security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The President showed an increase in the desire to use the army in ways of “enormous effects” of politics and law. “Despite what the administration says, these are not wars.” He adds that the harsh speech has not yet been translated into more combat operations or more American shoes on the ground abroad.
In the coming days, the defense analysts will closely monitor the release of the national defense strategy, which, for every administration, highlights what the most important security challenges consider and how the US military is planning to address it. A report that was leaked early, published in Politico, indicates that the new Trump administration’s strategy will feel threats from China and Russia and highlight the threats facing the country instead.
Trump 2.0
In both his three presidential campaigns, Mr. Trump ran as an anti -interior. During his 2016 campaign, he raised decades of the Republican Orthodox through his “First America” foreign policy, as he took the strikes not only in President Barack Obama but also at President George W. Bush. Mr. Trump said that Mr. Bush and his advisers to the new province prompted America to secret wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Despite the collapse with the leaders in his party, Mr. Trump and his isolation stance are more resonant among voters, including at the conservative base.
“Many Americans do not constantly want,” said Matthew Dos, Executive Vice President at the International Policy Center and Foreign Policy Adviser to the Cenator Bernie Sanders for 2020. “It is illuminated, it is messy, it becomes expensive.”
But Mr. Trump’s second mandate felt different from the beginning. The international scene has changed, with raging wars in Gaza and Ukraine. Despite the fears that his administration will press for “NATO Natm” in the face of Russian threats, Mr. Trump is actively working with the coalition, and in June he succeeded in urging members to enhance their defensive spending into 5 % of GDP.
On Tuesday, President Trump changed his accent in the Ukraine war, where he wrote as a social position of the truth that could strengthen Kiev, with the support of NATO, its lands that he lost to Russia. “With the passage of time, patience and financial support for Europe, especially the original borders from where this war started, it is a large option,” He wrote: “Why not?”
He concluded: “We will continue to provide weapons to NATO to do what they want with them.”
At home, the Trump administration acted as if it were equal in wartime. In addition to more strict demands about the willingness of the forces, which Mr. Higseth confirms, Pentagon curbed press freedoms for correspondents who cover military and defense officials who speak with them.
Last Friday, the Pentagon Corps received the press a note Saying that due to national security concerns, journalists who were examined by the Pentagon security service can no longer visit the offices of defense officials, as they did decades ago, without official escort. Defense officials also asked journalists to sign an agreement not to use any information that has not been declared to issue – or their arrival loss. The national press club described the movement of “direct attack on the independent press.” Minister Higseth replied that “the press” does not manage the Pentagon – people do.
Less controversial in a controversial way, the army presented a new physical fitness test for soldiers can lead to unloading. “I will really have to work hard [to prepare] A senior American military officer asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media: but from the mentality of deadly combat power, from the logical.
More ready to use strength
It was not until one year in the second period of Mr. Trump, some analysts see more willing to use military force by an administration that has one day aspiring to isolation.
Last week, the president who carried out a campaign in 2016 and 2020 on the removal of America from Afghanistan, Proposal The forces can soon find themselves in their old lands, where they created a store at a previous American base northern Kabul to better confront China. He also authorized a large shipment of weapons to Ukraine, which is paid by NATO countries.
As part of a new war on drugs launched by the Trump administration with the American forces, the United States bombed three boats in the Caribbean region this month. Officials said the boats were carrying Venezuelan drugs to America. These reports were not verified, and many have asked about the legitimacy of strikes.
After the first strike of the Caribbean boat – which the Trump administration is necessary to stop the flow of illegal drugs to the United States – Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina said he had earlier. He advised the president “To detonate something” as a warning to the drug cartals, according to Associated Press.
But the most aggressive situation and the use of the army is to get a decline, including some unexpected quarters.
This summer, for example, Mr. Trump sent thousands of National Guard forces to two American cities to address protests, crime and unauthorized immigration. This step faced more protests. He also ordered the unilateral bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities – which led to rare criticism from some of its supporters.
The former Fox News host, Taker Carlson, called the Republicans who supported the American strikes on Iran “warm”, and MP Margori Taylor Green of Georgia, and is usually one of the most important presidential allies, Posted on X: “Foreign wars/intervention/system change, finally put America, kill innocent people, make us disintegrate, and will eventually lead to our destruction.”
Republican reaction
The restoration of the Ministry of Defense to the Ministry of Defense, an effort led by the Republican Party, Rick Scott from Florida and Mike Li from Utah, has led to the outbreak of some in the Republican Coalition.
Senator Mitch McConnell criticized the Kentucky of the brand renamed as meaningless without additional army resources. “If we call it” the war department “, it is better to prepare the army to prevent wars and actually win it,” it was published on X on September 5.
“Almost looks [Department of Defense] Trump is best suitable. Changing him to the Ministry of War will better fit the neocon president. ”Farid Lucas suggested from
However, these internal discussions have not been less than the president’s grip on the Republican Party – or in popularity with al -Qaeda. Currently, President Trump’s followers tend to follow as Donald Trump will lead, “says Mr. Doss.” But they still have real concerns about America’s tendency to withdraw constantly to conflicts. “