The agency celebrates the US and the president as aggressor, conqueror and unrestrained international lawbreaker
On Friday, Donald Trump signed an executive order restoring the Department of Defense to its original name, the Department of War.
That name “had a stronger sound”, Trump told reporters in August. “As Department of War we won everything,” he added, “and I think we’re going to have to go back to that.” In June, at the Nato summit, he called Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, his “secretary of war”.
Judith Levine is a Brooklyn journalist and essayist, a contributing writer to the Intercept and the author of five books