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Trump recently set the tone when he ordered that the Defense Department be called the “US Department of War” in the future. This change on the Pentagon door sign was accompanied by a sharpening of the rhetorical tone. Defense Minister Pete Hegseth called on generals to make their purpose clearer to soldiers: “You kill people and destroy things – that’s your job,” Hegseth said literally. This describes an America that should act much more aggressively in the future, said Sanger – both internally and externally.
