United States Department of War

United States Department of War
Headquarters	Pentagon Arlington, Virginia
Jurisdiction	United States Government
Budget	$1 Trillion+
Personnel
Active-duty military	1,300,000
Reserves	826,000
Civilian employees	742,000
Civilian Leadership
Commander in Chief	Donald J. Trump
Secretary of War	Pete Hegseth
Deputy Secretary of War
Secretary of the Army
Secretary of the Navy
Secretary of the Air Force
Military Leadership
Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff	Dan Caine
Chief of Staff Army
Chief of Naval Operations
Chief of Staff Air Force
Commandant of the Marine Corps

The United States Department of War (DoW) is the US government department in charge of managing matters involving military operations and national security.

It is an alternate name (effective September 5, 2025) of what is still officially known as the Department of Defense (DoD, though bills have been introduced into Congress to formally change the name), which itself was created as a result of the National Security Act of 1947, merging the Departments of War and the Navy into a single department under the Secretary of Defense. Its first secretary was James Forrestal, who met an untimely death when he was tossed out of the 16th story window of the Bethesda Naval Hospital psychiatric ward at the hands of deep state operatives who opposed his support for the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

Technology

See also: DARPA

The DoW has developed significant technology that has been re-purposed for civilian use, such as the modern digital computer, the Internet, and the Global Positioning System. Artillery trajectories were calculated by "computers", that is, actual human beings who did the math by hand, until military necessity accelerated development of "electronic brains" such as the ENIAC (see also UNIVAC). The Internet was created and promoted by the Pentagon, largely because of the need to have redundant lines of communication to survive an enemy attack on phone and telegraph systems. The GPS satellites originally broadcast encrypted signals to support logistics, but a less precise signal is now also broadcast for hikers, taxi cab drivers, and commuters.

Shotcaller

In 2025 the Pentagon allocated $11 billion for the development of secret weapons to contain China. 25 types of secret weapons will be funded under the SHOTCALLER program. Some projects are listed under code names - Asgard, Bedlam, Lazarus, Oculus Prime, Pele, and Rolling Dice. Some directions have already been funded with hundreds of millions of dollars, while others will only start in 2026.

The SHOTCALLER program is designed to create long-range weapons and integrate data from space, air, and naval systems. According to the Pentagon's plan, this will allow for faster and more precise strikes in the event of a conflict in the Asia-Pacific region.

History

The War Department was a civilian agency created in 1789 to administer the field army under the president (as commander in chief) and the secretary of war. Henry Knox, a senior general before returning to civilian life, was the first secretary. It was one of the three original cabinet departments of the United States, created by the Congress in 1789 to supervise and supply the Army. It was headed by the Secretary of War, who had civilian responsibilities, such as finance and purchases; he had a minor role in deciding military affairs. In 1947 the department was absorbed by the National Military Establishment (renamed in 1949 as the Department of Defense). In 2025 President Donald Trump renamed the Defense Department the War Department by Executive Order.

1800-1860

After the department's poor handling of the War of 1812, reform was urgently needed. John C. Calhoun became secretary and reorganized the department into a system of bureaus, whose chiefs held office for life, and a commanding general in the field, a position not authorized by Congress. Winfield Scott became the senior general, into the start of the Civil War. The bureau chiefs acted as advisers to the secretary of war and at the same time commanded their own troops and field installations. Conflicts among the bureaus were frequent, but in disputes with the commanding general the secretary of war generally supported the bureaus. Congress regulated the affairs of the bureaus in minute detail, and their chiefs looked to that body for support.

Civil War to 1898

The performance of Stephen Vincent Benet as chief of the Ordnance Department shows that the view of the War Department in the late 19th century as an agency dominated by provincial traditionalists and obstructionists is overstated. While chief of ordnance, Benet presided over an impressive list of accomplishments in regard to artillery: a magazine rifle, cooperative means to design and arm coastal defense fortifications, smokeless powder, and a government gun plant staff who set quality standards for the industry and created cost-measuring devices. Benet's accomplishments demonstrate that the War Department worked satisfactorily, and given the constraints within which he had to function, Benet was an innovative bureaucrat and a technological and organizational modernizer.

1898-1939

The Spanish-American War demonstrated that more effective control over the department and bureaus was necessary. In 1903 Secretary Elihu Root sought to achieve this goal in a businesslike manner by appointing a chief of staff as general manager and a European-type general staff for planning. His successor, William Howard Taft, returned to the traditional secretary-bureau chief alliance, subordinating the chief of staff to the adjutant general, a powerful office since its creation in 1775. Indeed, Taft himself had little power as President Theodore Roosevelt made the major decisions.

The armies of the world in 1906, showing the miniscule American Army.

In 1911 Secretary Henry L. Stimson and Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, his chief of staff, revived the Root reforms. The general staff assisted them in their efforts to rationalize the army's organization along modern lines and in supervising the bureaus.

World War I

The bureau chiefs and Congress struck back and in the National Defense Act of 1916 reduced the size and functions of the general staff so much that few members remained when America entered World War I. Secretary Newton D. Baker, supported by President Woodrow Wilson, opposed efforts to control the bureaus and war industry until competition for limited supplies almost paralyzed industry and transportation, especially in the North. Yielding to pressure from Congress and industry, Baker placed Benedict Crowell in charge of munitions and made Maj. Gen. George W. Goethals acting quartermaster general and Gen. Peyton C. March chief of staff. Assisted by industrial advisers, they reorganized the army's supply system and practically wiped out the bureaus as independent agencies. March reorganized the general staff along similar lines and gave it direct authority over departmental operations. The bureaus regained their former independence from Congress after the war.

In the 1920s Gen. John J. Pershing realigned the general staff on the pattern of his American Expeditionary Forces field headquarters, which he commanded. While the general staff had little effective control over the bureaus, the chiefs of staff gradually gained substantial authority over them by 1939, when Gen. George C. Marshall assumed that office.

The War Department administered the CCC camps for young men, 1933-43. There was no military training but a reserve officer was in charge of each camp.

World War II

Marshall's principal task was advising the president on military strategy; he had little time to act as general manager of the department. But the whole organization was poorly geared to direct the army in a global war, for authority and responsibility were still fragmented among many agencies, and the chief of staff was burdened with too many details. Marshall said it was a "poor command post" and, supported by Henry L. Stimson, who was brought in by Franklin D. Roosevelt as secretary of war, he reorganized it after Pearl Harbor under the War Powers Act. He created three new major commands to run the department's operations: the Army Ground Forces to train land troops; the Army Air Forces, which developed an independent air arm; and the Army Service Forces, which directed administrative and logistical operations. The Operations Division acted as Marshall's general planning staff.

Post-1945

After the war Marshall's organization was abandoned for the fragmented prewar pattern, while the independent services continually parried efforts to reestablish firm executive control over their operations. Under the National Security Act of 1947, as amended in 1949, the War Department became the Department of the Army within the Department of Defense and the secretary of the army an operating manager for the new secretary of defense.

Korean War 1950 - 1953

See also: Korean War

Vietnam War 1964 - 1974

See also: Vietnam War

Gulf War 1991

See also: Gulf War

Iraqi War 2003 - 2011

See also: Iraqi War

Afghan War 2001 - 2021

See also: Afghan War

Biden junta 2021 - 2025

See also: Biden Putsch, Long march through the institutions, Fall of Kabul, and NATO war in Ukraine

Taliban mock U.S. flag raising at Iwo Jima in their victory over America.

Under the Biden junta, the most important national security issue is the protection of transgenderism in the military. This was affirmed in presidential Executive Order No.14004 signed five days after the seizure of power. The White House’s 2021 “Interim National Security Strategic Guidance,” instead of offering guidance on Russian, Iranian and Chinese aggression, the document was laden with PC nonsense. In its 24 pages, the ‘Guidance’ mentions climate change more than a dozen times, as well as racial justice and LGBTQI+ rights.

On January 29, 2021, four days after Biden’s transgender executive order, junta defense minister Lloyd Austin followed with a military-wide order that all restrictions on transgenderism would be lifted pending a review of the issue which radical leftists consider crucial to America’s national security. Biden signed an Executive Order on January 25, 2021 mandating taxpayers to pay for gender reassignment surgery for active military personnel and veterans, with some treatments costing upward of $200,000.

The Great Purge

Another of Austin's first actions was to order a 60 day nationwide stand down across all service branches to root out Trump voters, euphemistically referred to as "extremists". The junta attempted to identify military personnel who exercised their First Amendment right to peacefully assemble on January 6, 2020. In a Pentagon briefing with reporters, Ramón "CZ" Colón-López, the senior enlisted adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that some troops have asked, when the January 6, 2021 riot is brought up, "How come you're not looking at the situation that was going on in Seattle prior to that?" "This is coming from every echelon that we're talking to," he added.

Marine Battalion Commander, Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, was relieved of command for criticizing Llyod Austin and Mark Milley's decision to close Bagram AFB in Afghanistan before evacuating American civilians and soldiers. Lt. Col Scheller made a public Facebook post criticizing the decisions that led to the deaths of 13 U.S. Marines and 170 other non-combatants. “Did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, ‘Hey, it’s a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, a strategic airbase, before we evacuate everyone’? Did anyone do that? And when you didn’t think to do that, did anyone raise their hand and say, ‘We completely messed this up’?” Scheller was sent to the brig.

Marxist indoctrination

Camp Lejune: Biden regime regulations allowed men to wear skirts on base.

On May 14, 2021, Lt Col. Matthew Lohmeier, a commander in the United States Space Force, was relieved of command for criticizing Marxist ideology. Lohmeier said the Biden junta is teaching in the military that patriotism is evil.

Islamophobic witchhunts

After the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, many young Patriots rushed to defend their country. The Marxist Biden junta began a witchhunt to root out alleged Islamophobes. The junta dismantled counterterrorism programs and replaced them with Countering Violent Extremism (CVE).

In Biden’s group of outside contractors, the Countering Extremism Working Group (CEWG), several appeared at events for CAIR, ICNA, and other terror-linked organizations. Some appeared at events featuring advocates for Islamic terrorism, sharia, and violence against non-Muslims. The list consists almost entirely of organizations and individuals who supported Biden's election coup. The group is tasked with dismantling CVE and siccing Islamist activists and their lawyers on the military to implement a ruthless purge of American soldiers.

Frontpagemag reported that many personnel are from the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) including Heidi Beirich.

At the start of the Obama administration, Hina Shamsi was fighting on behalf of the Holy Land Foundation whose leaders had been convicted of providing material support to Hamas. As the head of the ACLU’s National Security Project, Shamsi, fought fiercely for the Islamic terrorists at Guantanamo Bay. In addition to Shamsi, there’s fellow Pakistani ACLU activist: Manar Waheed.

Faiza Patel co-wrote an article arguing against designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO). In another co-written article, Faiza Patel claimed that laws against Sharia were Islamophobic.

The list includes Wael Alzayat in his role as the CEO of Emgage. The national co-chair and founding member of the Islamic group is Khurrum Wahid who has been described as one of the country’s most prominent terror lawyers and whose clients include an Al Qaeda operative who plotted to kill President George W. Bush and Sami al-Arian who was linked to Islamic Jihad. Wahid had been placed on a terrorist watch list and Emgage, as counterterrorism researcher Joe Kaufman noted, "holds events at terror-linked mosques”: including one founded by al-Arian. Emgage's board includes Dhabah ‘Debbie’ Almontaser who was forced out of her old job over t-shirts reading “Intifada NYC”. Nada al Hanooti, Emgage's Executive Director for Michigan, is the daughter of Muthanna al Hanooti, a former CAIR leader who was accused of working for Saddam Hussein and Iraq's intelligence agency.

Also on the list of Biden's CEWG partners is Iman Boukadoum, the staff attorney for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). The ADC has a long history of defending and excusing Islamic terrorism. "I know many people in Hamas. They are very respectable," its former president Hamzi Moghrabi had said. Former ADC president Hussein Ibish called Hezbollah “a disciplined and responsible liberation force” whose members “conducted themselves in an exemplary manner.” Boukadoum was most recently hard at work fighting for Abdelhaleem Ashqar, who had been convicted of obstruction of justice in a case involving the flow of money to Hamas. Ashqar ran for president of the Palestinian Authority while awaiting trial in the United States. He had argued that the evidence against him had come from a time when “Hamas was not designated as a terrorist organisation” and boasted that, “they wanted me to testify against my people. I said I'd rather die than betray my commitment to freedom and justice for Palestine."

Fall of Kabul

"You guys left American citizens at the gate of the Kabul airport. Three empty jets paid for by volunteers were waiting for them. You and I talked on the phone. I told you where they were. Gave you their passport images... And you left them behind....General Milley also knew. Great job saving yourselves."

See also: Rape of Afghanistan

Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Mark Milley testified before Congress on June 23, 2021 that “Bagram is not necessary, tactically or operationally for what we are going to try to do here with Afghanistan." Civilian casualties hit a record high in May and June, according to the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. The U.S. military abandoned the strategic Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan at 3:00 AM on July 2, 2021 without informing Afghan National Army forces who were due to take it over. Gen. Mir Asadullah Kohistani of the Afghan Army said he only discovered the Americans had left two hours after they were gone when they called from Kabul airport. By the time Kohistani arrived with his troops, looters had carried away many items left behind by soldiers such as laptops, stereos, bicycles and guitars. Gen. Kohistani said troops left behind Bagram's 5,000 Taliban inmates, arms, ammunition, along with hundreds of armored military vehicles, such as Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles (MRAPs) and thousands of civilian cars and trucks. After closing Bagram, Biden assured President Ashraf Ghani on July 23, 2021. Biden said,

"we will continue to provide close air support, if we know what the plan is and what we are doing. And all the way through the end of August, and who knows what after that. We are also going to continue to make sure your air force is capable of continuing to fly and provide air support."

Amid the murder of 170 people at the Kabul airport, including 13 U.S. soldiers during the junta's botched evacuation plans, the highest-ranking enlisted person in the U.S. Army was tweeting about diversity: "Diversity is a number - do you have people that don’t look or think like you in the room? Inclusion is listening and valuing those people and valuing those people. #WomensEqualityDay reminds us we’re smarter and more lethal when we come together as an inclusive, cohesive team. Our values demand it."

Masterminds of the Afghan crisis: (immediate right) Antony Blinken; (left, unmasked) Biden; (far side of table) Jake Sullivan, Lloyd Austin, Mark Milley, unknown.

The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) told personnel not to personally assist “friends and former colleagues” stuck in Afghanistan. “If any Afghanistan national contacts a DCMA employee for assistance with asylum, the employee should in no way suggest or represent that the individual or DCMA is in a position to help. The employee should only inform the Afghanistan national that the State Department is the appropriate organization to contact....There are also humanitarian relief efforts conducted through religious or other non-profit organizations. Referring Afghanistan nationals to this support, or otherwise assisting in these efforts isn’t prohibited. However, it must be done with the understanding that it’s a personal activity, and not being done as a federal employee, and not during official duty time.”

Left: Russian Army recruiting ad. Right: woke progressive U.S. Army recruiting ad.

Michael Yon, a former Special Forces soldier and war correspondent was among the private citizens working with private networks and the military to rescue stranded Americans. Yon said, "We had them out there waving their passport screaming, 'I'm American.' People were turned away from the gate by our own Army." Yon emailed to an Army major whose team had tried to coordinate the rescue before abandoning it. "You guys left American citizens at the gate of the Kabul airport. Three empty jets paid for by volunteers were waiting for them. You and I talked on the phone. I told you where they were. Gave you their passport images. And my email and phone number. And you left them behind. General Milley also knew. Great job saving yourselves. Probably get a lot of medals."

Former Force Recon Marine Chad Robichaux told the Daily Caller News Foundation that his nonprofit organization had organized bus transport to the Kabul airport for 100 Christians, 300 orphans and 25 American citizens before sunrise on August 26, 2021. But when the evacuees arrived at the airport, Robichaux said a “military commander” made a scene and made the evacuees leave the airfield. “He really created a scene with us, did not like what we were doing and how we were doing it and actually made the people get back on the bus, put them outside the gate and essentially sic them back off to the Taliban,” Robichaux said of the military commander, which he identified as the commander of the 82nd Airborne Brigade during a separate interview with Newsmax.

When asked by ABC News' George Stephanopoulos: “Your military advisers did not tell you, ‘we should just keep 2,500 troops. It’s been a stable situation for the last several years. We can do that. We can continue to do that’?" Biden insisted, “No. No one said that to me that I can recall.” Under oath CENTCOM commander Gen. Kenneth McKenzie testified,

"I recommended that we maintain 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. I also recommended earlier in the fall of 2020 that we maintain 4,500 at that time. Those were my personal views. I also have a view that the withdrawal of those forces would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan military forces and eventually the Afghan government.”

Satanism

The Biden regime teaches Satanism in the U.S. military.

Tucker Carlson exposed a PowerPoint presentation used by the Biden regime to promote Satanism in the U.S. military. Carlson explained, "We just obtained a PowerPoint that the Army is using to justify mandatory vaccines to the troops. In it is the sympathetic portrayal of Satanism. ‘How many children were sacrificed to Satan because of the vaccine.'"

The presentation then proceeds to list the so-called ‘tenants of Satanism,’ which are taken straight from the Satanic Temple website. Carlson asked, “So what’s the scientific justification for this? Well, of course, there isn’t any,” Carlson responded. “The fighting strength of the military is young, healthy people, virtually all of them at extremely low risk of dying from COVID. In fact, to this day, only 46 members of the entire U.S. military have died from the coronavirus over the last year and a half. Suicides kill many, many more. In just a few months last year, 156 service members killed themselves.” Carlson posited, “The point of mandatory vaccination is to identify the sincere Christians in the ranks, the freethinkers, the men with high testosterone levels, and anyone else who doesn’t love Joe Biden and make them leave immediately. It’s a takeover of the U.S. military.”

Bibliography

• Cline, Ray S. Washington Command Post: The Operations Division, United States Army in World War II. (1950)
• Coffman, Edward M. The Old Army: A Portrait of the American Army in Peacetime, 1784-1898 (1986), about fighting Indians and coastal defense
• Cosmas, Graham A. An Army for Empire: The United States Army in the Spanish-American War (1971)
• Hewes Jr, James E. From Root to McNamara: Army Organization and Administration, 1900-1963. (1975), the standard scholarly history online edition
• Huston, James A. The Sinews of War: Army Logistics, 1775-1953 (1966);
• Hyman, Harold M. Stanton, The Life of Lincoln's Secretary of War (1962)
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• Koistinen, Paul A. C. Beating Plowshares into Swords: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1606-1865 (1996); Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865-1919 (1997); Planning War, Pursuing Peace: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1920-1939 (1998); Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940-1945 (2004) excerpt and text search 1940-45
• Shannon, Fred D. Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865, (2 vol. 1928)
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• Russell F. Weigley, Quartermaster General of the Union Army: A Biography of Montgomery C. Meigs (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959),
• White, Leonard D. The Federalists: a Study in Administrative History, (1948), the standard history of the department
  • White, Leonard D. The Jeffersonians: A Study in Administrative History, 1801-1829 (1954); The Jacksonians: A Study in Administrative History, 1829-60 (1956); The Republican Era, 1869-1901 a Study in Administrative History, (1958) .
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• Wiltse, Charles M. John C. Calhoun,(1944), vol 1.

External links

• https://www.war.gov