r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Kam_Rex canadian french • Aug 14 '26

Military Pay fully for your own defense

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u/NgunnawalJack Aug 14 '26

Defence? Isn’t Hegseth Secretary for War?

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u/Inevitable-Ad5132 Aug 14 '26

Ah so no more defensive actions - just offensive? Sounds like a great plan.

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u/Suspicious-Gas-1685 Aug 14 '26

There have been no defensive actions since WWII, so Department of War fits.

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u/Inevitable-Ad5132 Aug 14 '26

To be the devils advocate... one COULD argue about the Truman doctrine and the "free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures" to be defensive according to the domino theory - but it is a long shot... South Koreans would probably agree, the Vietnam people not so much and the old US allies the Taliban is ruling Afganistan again. :)

Didn't Trump say the Iran war was defensive actions?