PNN – In a message on his social media, the US President called the country’s Secretary of Defense “Secretary of War”; this is the second time the US President has called him Secretary of War!
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing the Independent, US President Donald Trump, in a message on his social network called “Truth Social”, published a video of US Defense Secretary Pete Hegsett announcing the Pentagon’s new drone strategy, calling him the “Secretary of War”!
After publishing Hegsett’s video on Fox News, Trump retweeted it and wrote: Secretary of War Pete Hegsett was great on Fox News today, talking about weapons and modern warfare.
This is not the first time Trump has called Hegsett Secretary of War. He first used the title for Hegsett at a NATO summit last month.
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Trump said at that summit that Marco Rubio and Pete Hegsett, the Secretary of State and Secretary of War, if you can call it that, would accompany me. You know, they used to call him the Secretary of War.
What does Minister of War mean?
The Secretary of War was a former U.S. cabinet position overseeing the military and was in use from 1789 to 1947.
At that time, the U.S. Navy had its own department and secretary. Following some structural changes, the U.S. Air Force was created and the Department of War was renamed the Department of the Army. In 1947, the newly created Department of Defense became a unifying organization responsible for overseeing the operations of the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
At the time, the word “defense” reflected the post-World War II shift toward defensive strategy, as opposed to warmongering. The last US Secretary of War was Kent Royal.