President Donald Trump’s Sept. 5 executive order authorizing the Defense Department to “be known as” the War Department until he can cajole Congress into changing the name officially is more than just a manifestation of Trump’s affinity for the good old days. It’s a rebranding effort designed to project a more muscular version of U.S. military might — Trump’s vision of “peace through strength.”
Notwithstanding two U.S. victories in Iraq in 1991 and 2003, the NATO war in Yugoslavia in 1999, successful military operations in Haiti (1994), Panama (1989), and Grenada (1983), not to mention the defeat of the Islamic State group in 2016, for which he took full credit, Trump is of the opinion that the U.S. armed forces have not won anything since
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