为何说特朗普改国防部为战争部表明他比其前任更真诚?您认同吗?

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摘要:美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)2025年9月4日报道,一位白宫官员向美国有线电视新闻网透露,唐纳德·特朗普总统预计将在美国时间9月5日(周五)签署一项行政命令,将国防部更名为战争部。

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美国国防部总部的五角大楼

一、特朗普为何要将国防部改名为战争部?

美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)2025年9月4日报道,一位白宫官员向美国有线电视新闻网透露,唐纳德·特朗普总统预计将在美国时间9月5日(周五)签署一项行政命令,将国防部更名为战争部。

这一举措是总统和国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯近日预先透露的计划。特朗普上周在椭圆形办公室对记者表示,他将为一些政府机构“更改名称”。他在8月25日对记者表示:“我们现在称其为国防部,但私下说,我认为我们会更改这个名称。”

特朗普说:“我们打赢了第一次世界大战、第二次世界大战,那时它被称为战争部,在我看来,这才是它的本质。防御只是其中一部分,但我感觉我们会做出改变。”

关于周五行政命令的消息最初由福克斯新闻报道。赫格塞斯9月4日在本宁堡时暗示,更名计划将于美国时间周五公布。

当被问及可能的更名时,赫格塞斯表示:“我建议(你们)明天保持关注。这是一件措辞很重要,头衔很重要,文化很重要的事。乔治·华盛顿创立了战争部,我们拭目以待。”

美国首任总统乔治·华盛顿组建陆军时设立战争部

二、美国战争部名称的历史由来

该部门的名称上一次变更是通过国会立法实现的。战争部(该部门曾用名)最初由乔治·华盛顿总统在组建美国陆军时设立。但1949年,作为哈里·杜鲁门总统任内军事体系全面重组的一部分,其名称被更改。

杜鲁门于1947年签署《国家安全法》,将海军部、新成立的空军部以及陆军部(根据陆军史料,此前称为战争部)合并为一个名为“国家军事机构”的组织,由文职国防部长领导。1949年8月,国家军事机构更名为国防部。

《国家安全法》还设立了参谋长联席会议,作为向总统提供军事规划和战略建议的机构。

此次五角大楼的更名行动是赫格塞斯一系列类似举措的延续,此前他已对军事基地和舰船名称进行了修改。他推翻了拜登时期移除布拉格堡、胡德堡等基地南方联盟时期名称的决定,恢复了原名称。

今年6月,赫格塞斯还下令将一艘以同性恋权益活动家、海军退伍军人哈维·米尔克命名的美军油轮更名为奥斯卡・V・彼得森号。

特朗普的国防部长赫格塞斯极力清除拜登政府改变的美军名称

三、为何说改名反映了特朗普直面事实的勇气?

虽然不少人认为将“国防部”改回“战争部”是特朗普的政治噱头,但多数国际专家却认为,不得不佩服特朗普敢于承认史实的勇气。毕竟,在这个部门以“国防”之名存在的70余年里,它的履历却始终与“国防”背道而驰。

1949年,杜鲁门政府将“战争部”更名为“国防部”,美其名曰“适应二战后和平秩序”。可翻开此后的历史,所谓“国防”更像一块遮羞布:朝鲜半岛的硝烟里,它带着“联合国军”跨越三八线,将战火燃至鸭绿江边;越南丛林的泥泞中,它以“遏制共产主义扩张”为名,投下的炸弹总量超过二战总和,却让数百万平民沦为难民;21世纪初,它用一包“疑似洗衣粉”的证据,发动伊拉克战争,让两河流域的古国陷入常年动荡,数十万人失去生命;如今,它仍在欧洲拱火冲突,在亚太拼凑军事同盟,将武器卖到全球热点地区,让“国防”的定义彻底沦为“哪里有利益,哪里就有美军的对外扩张和侵略”历史。

据不完全统计,从二战结束到 2001 年,在世界上 153 个地区发生的 248 次武装冲突中,美国发起了 201 场。2001 年之后,美国打着 “反恐” 的旗号继续穷兵黩武,在全球 85 个国家发动战争或开展军事行动。

连年的战争开支掏空了美国国库并积累下36万亿美元的巨额国债,但2025年特朗普政府又提出了高达9500亿美元的国防预算,相当于其后10个国家军费总和,当“国防”成为对外扩张的借口,当“安全”成为少数军火商牟利的工具时,“国防部”的名字本身,确是对其名字的最大嘲讽。

如今特朗普要将其改回“战争部”,倒不如说是卸下了这块虚伪的牌子。毕竟,当一个部门的主要工作是策划战争、输出冲突、维系全球霸权时,叫“战争部”至少足够诚实,诚实到让世界看清,那些包裹在“自由”“安全”外衣下的军事行动,本质上都是为了美国的地缘私利。

Trump to sign executive order renaming Pentagon the Department of War. By Samantha Waldenberg, Haley Britzky on CNN. September 4, 2025.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Friday that will change the name of the Defense Department to the Department of War, a White House official told CNN.

It’s a move that the president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have previewed in recent days, including Trump in the Oval Office last week when he told reporters his administration was going to “change the name.”

“We call it the Department of Defense, but between us, I think we’re gonna change the name,” the president told reporters on August 25.

“We won the World War 1, World War 2 - it was called the Department of War, and to me, that’s really what it is. Defense is a part of that, but I have a feeling we’re gonna be changing.”

The news about Friday’s order was first reported by Fox News.

While at Fort Benning on Thursday, Hegseth indicated the name change would be coming on Friday.

“I would say standby tomorrow,” Hegseth said when asked about a potential change. “It’s something that — words matter. Titles matter. Cultures matter. And George Washington founded the War Department. We’ll see.”

The last time the department’s name was changed took an act of Congress. CNN has reached out to the White House about how it would change the name this time.

The Department of War, as it as once called, was first established by President George Washington when he founded the country’s Army. But the name was later changed in 1949 as part of a broader reorganization of the military under President Harry Truman.

Truman signed the National Security Act in 1947, which merged the Department of the Navy, the newly created Department of the Air Force, and the Department of the Army — previously the Department of War, according to the Army — into one organization called the National Military Establishment, under the civilian secretary of defense. The National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense in August 1949.

The National Security Act also established the Joint Chiefs of Staff as an organization to advise the president on military planning and strategy.

The effort to rename the Pentagon follows a number of similar steps by Hegseth to change the names of bases and ships. He reversed a Biden-era decision that had removed Confederate-era names of bases like Fort Bragg and Fort Hood, reverting to those titles but officially naming them after different individuals with the same names.

In June, Hegseth also ordered the renaming of an oiler ship named after gay rights activist and Navy veteran Harvey Milk.

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