President Donald Trump says he wants to change the name of the Department of Defense back to its original title: the Department of War.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, the president said, in part, “It just sounded bad to me, ‘On behalf of the Department of Defense?’ Defense? I don’t want to be defense only. We want defense but we want offense, too, if that’s OK. As the Department of War, we won everything, and I think we’re going to have to go back to that.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, standing behind him, said, “That’s coming soon, sir.”
Trump quickly said, “You let me know if you want to do it.”
The Pentagon carried that name until 1949 when it was rebranded amid post–World War II restructuring.
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