President Trump Rebrands the Pentagon the 'Department of War'
Podcast: The Brian Lehrer ShowPublished On: Mon Sep 08 2025
Description: President Trump announced he will rename the Department of Defense the "Department of War." Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of many nonfiction books and his latest, a novel, A Capital Calamity (Miniver Press, 2024), explains the symbolic and actual implications for this decision, plus talks about the dubious legality of the Trump administration's fatal attack on a Venezuelan boat they say was transporting illegal drugs.
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