The Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office told Le Parisien that early Tuesday morning, a Libyan teen allegedly raped a Ukrainian woman in front of the Eiffel Tower.

A 17-year-old Dutch girl was hunted down, then butchered as she tried calling the police last week near Amsterdam. The girl’s suspected killer is a 22-year-old asylum-seeker who was arrested at a migrant center on Friday for an unrelated Aug. 15 rape and is believed to have also sexually assaulted another woman.

Earlier this month, Pakistani asylum-seeker Kamran Khan, 43, appeared in a British court, where he denied having repeatedly raped an 8-year-old girl between September 2024 and July 2025.

Confronted with these stories and other insights into the fallout of mass migration into Europe and the failed assimilation of migrant populations, Tesla CEO Elon Musk — who has long criticized British and European officials for failing to adequately prevent or address the rape of their girls and women by migrant men — posed the question on Monday, “Why are they allowing the rape of Europe?”

On the continent

Migrants helped drive the spike of rapes across Europe, cases of which European Union data indicates increased by 141% between 2013 and 2023.

A Lund University study published earlier this year in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence found that migrants or second-generation migrants accounted for 63% of convictions for rape or attempted rape in Sweden — a nation of 10.5 million that the Telegraph noted opened its doors to roughly 160,000 asylum seekers in 2015 alone.

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Marie-Thérèse Kaiser, an Alternative for Germany politician, was convicted of a hate crime last year for pointing out that in her homeland — which opened its doors to over 670,000 refugees and 680,000 non-refugee immigrants between 2010 and 2016 — Afghan and African asylum-seekers “are proportionally 40x and 70x more involved in gang rapes than Germans,” citing government statistics.

Of the suspects identified in the rape and sexual assault cases in Germany last year, Deutsche Welle reported that over a third were foreigners.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni acknowledged in a 2024 interview that in her nation, “there is a higher incidence, unfortunately, in cases of sexual violence, by immigrants, especially illegal ones.”

In the isles

In the case of Britain, which has similarly imported a rape crisis, Musk appears ready to fund the legal backlash.

“I would like to help fund legal actions against corrupt officials who aided and abetted the rape of Britain, per the official government inquiry,” Musk wrote on Tuesday.

Thousands of British girls were systematically raped, tortured, and trafficked by Pakistani grooming gangs from the late 1980s well into the new millennium.

Authorities long failed to help the victims and hold the pedophilic rapists accountable in part because of “nervousness about race.”

Earlier this year, British Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe, formerly of the Reform U.K. Party and now the leader of Restore Britain, launched a crowdfunded independent inquiry into the grooming gangs and into the government officials who failed to act.

‘The government simply needs to enforce the law.’

On Tuesday, Lowe’s team of inquisitors revealed that they have “identified eighty-five local authorities in which the gang-based sexual exploitation of children is taking place, or has historically done so” and noted that “patterns of targeted exploitation by predominantly Pakistani males, combined with gross negligence from public bodies, are identifiable.”

RELATED: Austria’s struggle with mass migration holds a lesson for America

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Lowe’s team further indicated that “ongoing cases have been referred to relevant authorities, and the Rape Gang Inquiry will shortly be writing to all local authorities where these heinous crimes have been identified to request full transparency and cooperation.”

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Among the areas highlighted on the map shared to X by Lowe that indicates where the grooming gangs were allegedly active was the county of West Yorkshire, where police responding to a freedom of information request recently revealed that over 21% of suspects arrested for sexual offenses last year were foreign nationals. Pakistani nationals accounted for a plurality of the arrestees.

“Existing law is clear that anyone who was an accessory to aggravated rape or murder, especially of children, is guilty of serious crime and must either serve time in prison if a citizen or be deported if not,” wrote Musk. “The government simply needs to enforce the law.”

Lowe noted, “Elon deserves huge credit for what he has done to uncover this scandal.”

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The U.S. Institute of Peace acting president Dr. Darren Beattie told Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on Tuesday about the melee that took place at his agency’s headquarters during its takeover by the Department of Government Efficiency in March.

Beattie, who is also undersecretary for public diplomacy at the State Department, revealed both the lengths that deep-staters went to cover their tracks as well as what illicit trade the agency apparently had an interest in propping up in Afghanistan.

The USIP is a taxpayer-funded think tank established by Congress in 1984 that had a budget last year of $55 million. The Heritage Foundation noted in a 2024 report that the agency lacked transparency and mechanisms to ensure fiscal accountability; was full of partisans; and had greatly overstepped the bounds of its original mission.

Beattie told Beck that the USIP is an “important member of the NGO archipelago,” whose quasi-governmental, quasi-private “chameleon character” helps America’s foreign policy establishment “fulfill some of those more sensitive functions that had been exposed in the course of the Church [Committee] hearings” regarding misconduct by American intelligence agencies, including the CIA.

Pursuant to President Donald Trump’s Feb. 19 executive order concerning the “reduction of the federal bureaucracy,” the DOGE set to work earlier this year on eliminating bloat and inefficiencies at the USIP.

The Trump administration fired the voting members of the agency’s board of directors along with the USIP’s president, former Clinton official George Moose; terminated nearly all of the institute’s staff and activities around the world; had elements of the DOGE take over the institute’s headquarters; and transferred USIP’s property to the General Services Administration.

RELATED: State Department isn’t buying ProPublica’s sob story about Taliban alumnus whose funding was exposed by DOGE

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Deep-staters apparently desperate to cling to power at the agency tried to fight this house-cleaning, not only filing legal challenges but getting physical.

After DOGE member Kenneth Jackson was temporarily made acting president of the agency, Trump’s efficiency team attempted to enter the USIP’s headquarters. However, Moose and agency staffers repeatedly barred their entry.

Finally, on March 17, the DOGE managed to enter with the help of law enforcement.

In response to Moose’s claim that the “DOGE has broken into our building,” the DOGE responded:

Mr. Moose denied lawful access to Kenneth Jackson, the Acting USIP President (as approved by the USIP Board). @DCPoliceDept arrived onsite and escorted Mr. Jackson into the building. The only unlawful individual was Mr. Moose, who refused to comply, and even tried to fire USIP’s private security team when said security team went to give access to Mr. Jackson.

Beattie told Beck that during the DOGE takeover of the agency, USIP staffers “barricaded themselves in the offices. They sabotaged the physical infrastructure of the building. There were reports of there being loaded guns within the offices.”

“There was one hostage situation where they held a security guard under basically kind of a false-imprisonment type of situation,” continued Beattie. “It was extremely intense. Far more so than the better-known story of USAID.”

‘I think even more bizarre than having this former Taliban guy on the payroll is the kind of schizophrenic posture in relation to Afghanistan exhibited by the US Institute of Peace.’

Beattie noted further that “in the course of all of that, they tried to delete terabyte of data — of accounting information that would indicate what kind of stuff they were up to, what kind of people they were paying.”

After the DOGE secured the headquarters, former Trump adviser and DOGE head Elon Musk indicated that the DOGE recovered the terabyte of financial data that USIP staffers allegedly deleted to “cover their crimes.”

RELATED: Democracy promotion is dead: Good riddance

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The DOGE not only exposed significant waste and alleged fraud but questionable contracts, including a $132,000 contract with a former Taliban official, Mohammad Qasem Halimi, who served as the extremist regime’s chief of protocol, then later as a “fixer type” in Afghanistan.

“What the heck is an organization like this doing having an individual who is a former Taliban member on their payroll?” Beattie said to Beck.

Beattie suggested ProPublica’s recent attempt to paint Halimi as a victim of the DOGE was a “total joke,” stressing that “he was probably one of these people who was playing all sides, made a lot of enemies.”

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“I think even more bizarre than having this former Taliban guy on the payroll is the kind of schizophrenic posture in relation to Afghanistan exhibited by the U.S. Institute of Peace,” continued Beattie.

The USIP’s acting president suggested that his supposedly peace-focused agency was apparently interested in keeping Afghanistan’s opium trade alive and well.

“One truly bizarre thing is that one of the U.S. Institute of Peace’s main kind of policy agendas was basically lamenting the fact that the opium trade had dissipated under Taliban leadership,” said Beattie. “They had multiple reports coming out, basically saying, ‘This is horrible that the opium trade is diminished under the Taliban. We need to find some way to restore it.’ How bizarre is that?!”

“The whole story of opium and Afghanistan and its connection to government entities is a very intricate and delicate and fascinating one. But it seems very clear that the U.S. Institute of Peace was involved in that story to some degree,” added Beattie.

Beck noted that “this is the real deep-state stuff that I think bothers people so much. Look, we expect our CIA to do stuff — we don’t necessarily want it to do it, but we expect it. But when it’s in the State Department, when it’s in every department … pushing money to NGOs to overthrow governments, it’s out of control.”

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My buddy Jack Hibbs is warning Californians that it may be time to flee before Democrat cultists literally steal their children.

So what will the right do besides post memes? When a pastor as conservative and evangelistic as Calvary Chapel’s Hibbs — a man who has ministered in California for four decades — starts talking about exile, will you finally admit how dire America’s cultural situation has become?

If we don’t wake up, we won’t have any nation at all.

The bell tolls when the nation’s largest state can contemplate a crime of this scale.

And do you know what time it is? The same CEOs who ruined Cracker Barrel still stand ready to take red-state children, too, if given the chance. Conservatives laugh at how foolish the woke Cracker Barrel priestess was for tanking her own company’s stock. What should really trouble them is the church itself — bullied, manipulated, and lulled into endless equivocation instead of awakening.

We must be a Christian nation

Consider the case of Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn, who recently argued that it is not possible to have a Christian nation in the United States. While I have a vast amount of respect for Arnn’s past work and the institution he presides over, what are we to make of it when one of the right’s bastions of conservative thought can’t even find the clarity to meet the clear truth of the current moment?

We’ve barely been a nation at all since 2020. Yet Arnn wants to muse from the comfort class while the re-election of nearly 80-year-old President Donald Trump is arguably the only thing holding back the barbarians.

Why is Trump to the right of and more vigorous than the church on so many issues of the day? Who will replace him? Who will identify the equivocators in our midst and hold them accountable before all of us are in Jack Hibbs’ shoes?

Those are the questions before us, and lots of pagan countries throughout history have known the importance of at least answering them. Yet somehow, a great many of our Christian elders are stuck in “how many angels can dance on the head of a pin” mode.

The fight is far from over

For all the successes since the 2024 election, we still have many battles to fight. The demonic side of the American equation isn’t even batting an eye at seizing California children like Mola Ram in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” That’s insane and cowardly — but that’s also a regular Tuesday.

Our responses to the duties of citizenship almost never match those of the woke left, a point made recently on my show by Kirk Cameron. He poignantly remarked that the pagan left currently understands Deuteronomy’s commands to actively live out one’s faith through community far better than the church does.

Yikes.

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If we don’t truly wake up and understand that unless we reward our heroes and punish our enemies in the name of the good, the true, and the beautiful, then we won’t have any nation at all, and Larry Arnn will need to find a studio in Hungary from which to spread the good news about the late, lamented American founding.

The mere thought of such a weak destiny should be revolting to us — and inexcusable. Men should be doing anything and everything short of that which God Almighty says we cannot do to stop it from happening.

We need more men like Jack Hibbs. Many, many more.

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What’s going on with Cracker Barrel?

The restaurant chain just rolled out a full rebrand, courtesy of CEO and president Julie Felss Masino. It’s so ambitious that the rebrand itself even has a name: “All the More,” a perfectly vague and nauseating brand for a perfectly vague and nauseating rebrand.

Every decision must be backed up by consultants, data firms, and PR agencies so that when things flop, no one at the top can be blamed.

Here’s the old logo:

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All those little details — the barrel, the old white guy, the dark-yellow pinto-bean-shaped background, the phrase “Old Country Store” — have been thrown out in favor of something with all the charm of a fintech logo:

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And it’s not just the logo. The company has redesigned the inside of the restaurants, too, from their trademark cluttered, homey feel, with tchotchkes and old pictures and fishing reels …

… to something “cleaner” with white walls and minimal decor. All the little quirks and nuances that endeared the brand to consumers in the first place — gone. What used to have an idiosyncratic, country-store feel now resembles a generic $14-per-taco shop in Austin.

Refinement racket

There’s nothing groundbreaking about this makeover, of course. It’s a prime example of what wriiter Paul Skallas (better known online as LindyMan) calls “refinement culture:” the endless corporate drive to shave away quirks, details, and character until everything looks the same — flat, safe, and soulless.

There’s also nothing surprising about the backlash. People don’t like refinement culture. Burberry learned this back in 2018, when the company went from this …

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… to this:

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Not only did it swap the pleasantly ornate logo for something in a blandly utilitarian, sans serif font, the company completely jettisoned the image of the knight — a reference to the brand’s beginning as a purveyor of equestrian apparel.

This “new look” lasted all of five years before Burberry came to its senses and returned to what was already working.

Tone-deaf functionaries

Why didn’t Felss Masino learn from Burberry? Or, for that matter, from Bud Light’s more recent Dylan Mulvaney fiasco?

As for Bud Light, it’s likely that Felss Masino didn’t think she was making the same mistake as her counterpart at Anheuser-Busch; obviously she hasn’t done anything as egregiously misguided as pushing “trans” on an audience with no interest whatsoever in seeing a narcissistic gay man pretend he’s a girl.

But at bottom, Felss Masino exhibits the same tone-deafness — a clear inability or unwillingness to understand her customers and the direction of mainstream culture in general.

So what did Cracker Barrel think it was doing? To answer that, you need to understand the function of people like Felss Masino.

She doesn’t create anything. Never hath she shifted a zero into a one. She is a managerial bureaucrat who just goes from one company to the next.

Not only is she a managerial bureaucrat, she’s not a particularly good one. Cracker Barrel is not the kind of “sexy” brand that people like Felss Masino aspire to run. And you can see her disdain for Cracker Barrel and its customers in her indifference to what makes the brand work.

Deleting the details

Obviously she didn’t set out to tank the brand. Cracker Barrel hasn’t been doing great financially, so most likely she brought in a consultant — consultants being the main drivers of refinement culture — who pointed out how inefficient it was to maintain this complicated logo and interior design.

I imagine the pitch was something like: “Here’s your line-item budget. If you can cut down your design costs by 10%, you’ll save the company $25 million a year.”

That’s what consultants do, while at the same time justifying their own existence. They want to get you to take money that could go to building your business and spend it on their endless little pare-downs. Until you’re left with no details. And culture is details.

Which is why leaders with an actual vision don’t use consultants. Apple founder Steve Jobs famously disdained them.

RELATED: Cracker Barrel’s $700 million recipe for disaster

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Brand flakes

But very few leaders have vision. A while back I went to dinner with the CEO of a famous consumer packaged goods brand. She had all the right credentials: Ivy League education, high-profile experience in the industry.

It’s what she didn’t have that was notable: even the remotest interest in the product she oversaw. There was not one thing in her home — let alone in her conversation — to indicate her role.

And I realized it was because she is excelling at her job. Which is essentially to act as a bureaucrat maintaining the status quo. These aren’t companies — they’re bureaus. What’s Cracker Barrel to them but the Bureau of Cheap White People Highway Rest-Stop Slop?

Look at Felss Masino’s resume. She’s been at Cracker Barrel for a little over two years. Before that, a five-year stint at Taco Bell, a couple of months at Mattel, three years at Sprinkles Cupcakes. Her longest job was one of her earliest: She spent 12 years rising in the ranks at Starbucks until she became a top marketing executive.

Camel by committee

It’s at this point that the job changes become much more frequent, and that’s no accident. Felss Masino no doubt had to live and breathe Starbucks during her long ascent there, but now that she’s “made it,” she can enjoy life as one of the many interchangeable female CEOs whose only job is take whatever brand she’s in charge of, refine it down to its most efficient version, and maximize its value for the corporate regime.

Yes, sometimes that means pushing through “woke,” LGBT nonsense, but ultimately that’s just a means to an end. The most important qualification of kommissars like Felss Masino is their mastery of CYA.

CYA, short for cover your a**, is a time-honored philosophy of dysfunctional organizations, often associated with its corollary, s**t flows downhill. And marketing today is dominated by CYA culture. Every decision must be backed up by consultants, data firms, and PR agencies so that when things flop, no one at the top can be blamed. Or even in the middle, if you’re good enough at CYA.

That’s why Cracker Barrel didn’t hire one visionary agency. It hired three mediocre ones — Blue Engine, Prophet, and Viral Nation — each surely providing slides, jargon, and “proof” that the rebrand was genius. The result is exactly what you’d expect: a camel built by committee.

New and improved

It doesn’t have to be this way. Back in the 1990s, when I grew up, brands took big marketing risks. They were willing to commit to a strong point of view.

It didn’t always work, but when it did, it made everyday life a little more pleasant. Unless you want to live somewhere completely off the grid, you will be regularly exposed to advertising; it’s indispensable to the innovation and consumer choice we all enjoy. What people in the ad business used to understand is that advertising doesn’t have to be ugly or lowest-common-denominator. Look at old ads by Nike, or Apple, or even McDonald’s — ads that dared to strive for beauty and inspiration.

What changed is the kind of people who go into advertising. What used to be a scrappy, male-dominated field, as in “Mad Men,” is now dominated by overeducated women.

Women’s work

Let me make the standard, tiresome disclaimer: I’ve worked with many talented and funny women marketers. The problem is how the inverted sex ratio changes the business as a whole. Women, generally speaking, just don’t have the same competitive, ego-driven, risk-taking nature as men. And when you’ve spent $250,000 on your education, you’re not about to jeopardize your investment by taking big swings.

This new ecosystem rewards traits that are more traditionally female: presentability, agreeableness, and keeping things tidy and organized. It requires leaders who are fluent in inoffensive, trying-to-please-everybody marketing gobbledygook. Like this quote from Cracker Barrel Chief Marketing Officer Sarah Moore:

We believe in the goodness of country hospitality, a spirit that has always defined us. Our story hasn’t changed. Our values haven’t changed. With “All the More,” we’re honoring our legacy while bringing fresh energy, thoughtful craftsmanship, and heartfelt hospitality to our guests this fall.

Country star Jordan Davis, bard of “heartfelt hospitality.” BG048/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty Images

As someone with more than a decade of ad industry experience, I’ve been neck-deep in this kind of soul-killing gibberish for years. But there is a bright side.

You gotta believe

If you have the drive and the ambition, the CYA-ification of marketing represents a huge opportunity. Small, upstart brands are better positioned than ever to cut through the noise — provided they’re not afraid to defy business as usual.

That’s exactly why I founded my agency, WILL.

I suppose this is the point at which I’m supposed to issue some faux-humble disclaimer like “shameless self-promotion!” But screw that. Why would I feel any shame? I believe in WILL, and that’s why I work so relentlessly to build it. And I believe just as wholeheartedly in the brands we help.

This says less about my virtue than it does about my sheer pragmatism. For anyone wanting to escape the system-wide managed decline afflicting Cracker Barrel and countless other organizations, sincere, deeply held belief in your mission isn’t optional — it’s the only way out.

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North Carolina police are investigating a lethal incident involving a woman who was found shot in the face in Mount Holly early Saturday morning.

The Mount Holly Police Department said it was called to the home on Tomberlin Road at about 1:20 a.m. Police found a woman with the gunshot wound at the home of her next-door neighbor.

The children were placed in the custody of their family members.

The woman was breathing and conscious despite the injury. Neighbors told police that the woman said she ran to the neighbors’ house after the man shot her.

When police investigated the woman’s home, they found a dead man inside, but it was unclear how he died. Police also found two children who were safe asleep in separate bedrooms in the upstairs of the home.

The woman was transported to a hospital for treatment of the gunshot wound to her face.

Police said there was no threat to the community based on the evidence they collected at the home. They added that the investigation was ongoing but that they were not releasing any more information about the case. No arrests have been made in the case.

WSOC-TV reported that the dead man was identified as Montana Ennenga.

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The children were placed in the custody of their family members.

Mount Holly is a suburb of Charlotte with about 17,500 residents in Gaston County.

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President Donald Trump made headlines this week by signaling a rebrand of the Defense Department — restoring its original name, the Department of War.

At first, I was skeptical. “Defense” suggests restraint, a principle I consider vital to U.S. foreign policy. “War” suggests aggression. But for the first 158 years of the republic, that was the honest name: the Department of War.

A Department of War recognizes the truth: The military exists to fight and, if necessary, to win decisively.

The founders never intended a permanent standing army. When conflict came — the Revolution, the War of 1812, the trenches of France, the beaches of Normandy — the nation called men to arms, fought, and then sent them home. Each campaign was temporary, targeted, and necessary.

From ‘war’ to ‘military-industrial complex’

Everything changed in 1947. President Harry Truman — facing the new reality of nuclear weapons, global tension, and two world wars within 20 years — established a full-time military and rebranded the Department of War as the Department of Defense. Americans resisted; we had never wanted a permanent army. But Truman convinced the country it was necessary.

Was the name change an early form of political correctness? A way to soften America’s image as a global aggressor? Or was it simply practical? Regardless, the move created a permanent, professional military. But it also set the stage for something Truman’s successor, President Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower famously warned about: the military-industrial complex.

Ike, the five-star general who commanded Allied forces in World War II and stormed Normandy, delivered a harrowing warning during his farewell address: The military-industrial complex would grow powerful. Left unchecked, it could influence policy and push the nation toward unnecessary wars.

And that’s exactly what happened. The Department of Defense, with its full-time and permanent army, began spending like there was no tomorrow. Weapons were developed, deployed, and sometimes used simply to justify their existence.

Peace through strength

When Donald Trump said this week, “I don’t want to be defense only. We want defense, but we want offense too,” some people freaked out. They called him a warmonger. He isn’t. Trump is channeling a principle older than him: peace through strength. Ronald Reagan preached it; Trump is taking it a step further.

Just this week, Trump also suggested limiting nuclear missiles — hardly the considerations of a warmonger — echoing Reagan, who wanted to remove missiles from silos while keeping them deployable on planes.

The seemingly contradictory move of Trump calling for a Department of War sends a clear message: He wants Americans to recognize that our military exists not just for defense, but to project power when necessary.

Trump has pointed to something critically important: The best way to prevent war is to have a leader who knows exactly who he is and what he will do. Trump signals strength, deterrence, and resolve. You want to negotiate? Great. You don’t? Then we’ll finish the fight decisively.

That’s why the world listens to us. That’s why nations come to the table — not because Trump is reckless, but because he means what he says and says what he means. Peace under weakness invites aggression. Peace under strength commands respect.

Trump is the most anti-war president we’ve had since Jimmy Carter. But unlike Carter, Trump isn’t weak. Carter’s indecision emboldened enemies and made the world less safe. Trump’s strength makes the country stronger. He believes in peace as much as any president. But he knows peace requires readiness for war.

Names matter

When we think of “defense,” we imagine cybersecurity, spy programs, and missile shields. But when we think of “war,” we recall its harsh reality: death, destruction, and national survival. Trump is reminding us what the Department of Defense is really for: war. Not nation-building, not diplomacy disguised as military action, not endless training missions. War — full stop.

RELATED: Trump makes a bold push for global competitors to abandon nukes: ‘The power is too great’

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Names matter. Words matter. They shape identity and character. A Department of Defense implies passivity, a posture of reaction. A Department of War recognizes the truth: The military exists to fight and, if necessary, to win decisively.

So yes, I’ve changed my mind. I’m for the rebranding to the Department of War. It shows strength to the world. It reminds Americans, internally and externally, of the reality we face. The Department of Defense can no longer be a euphemism. Our military exists for war — not without deterrence, but not without strength either. And we need to stop deluding ourselves.

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