Department of peace sounds even better than defense.

They are pacifiers. Kills everything until it’s pacified.

No it doesn’t, it sounds like newspeak.

Departament of defense sounds like a newspeak for a country that was not in any danger of being invaded for a century or more and all the wars abroad it participated in, it entered pretty much by choice. Department of war is way more accurate.

I'm pretty sure they're being sarcastic