US Department of Defense to be renamed ‘Department of War’: Report

In an effort to rebrand the government agency with a more powerful brand, Donald Trump is slated to rename it the Department of Defense.

According to The Associated Press news agency, White House officials who are aware of the rebranding effort are expected to implement the name change in an executive order on Friday.

Unknown facts: The Department of Defense will have the name “Department of War” as its secondary name until legislation can change it permanently.

In a post above a news story about the reported change, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote “DEPARTMENT OF WAR.”

Hegseth didn’t make any additional remarks.

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When the US was a new superpower, President Trump had predicted that a name change would bring back memories of earlier US military victories in World Wars I and II.

He told reporters late last month that “everyone likes that we had an unbelievable history of victory when it was Department of War.”

He explained that the name was changed to “Department of Defense.”

Defense is “too defensive,” he said. And if we have to be offensive, we also want to be defensive, he said.

From 1789 until the US military’s reorganization at the end of World War II, which ended in 1945, the Department of Defense was known as the “Department of War.”

Following a merger with other departments in 1947, it was later renamed the National Military Establishment, and the name was later changed to the Department of Defense.

These name changes were made by a Congress-approved resolution.

The defense department is frequently referred to as simply the “Pentagon” or simply by its moniker, “DOD,” given the distinctive shape of its headquarters close to Washington, DC.

Defense Secretary Hegseth will be instructed to pursue legal and legislative means, according to reports from US media reports that it is still unclear how Trump will change the name.

In an interview with Fox News in the US, Hegseth claimed that his organization wants a “warrior ethos” and made similar remarks to Trump’s regarding the department’s name.

We need warriors who are able to impose lethal force on the enemy, he said.

We don’t want to play defense all the time, so we don’t want to have endless contingencies. We believe that titles, names, and words count. We are currently working on it with the president and the White House. He remarked, “Stand by.”