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

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President Donald Trump precocious said ‘defence is excessively defensive’ arsenic the US wants ‘to beryllium violative too’.

Published On 5 Sep 2025

United States President Donald Trump is owed to rename the Department of Defense arsenic the Department of War successful a bid to rebrand the authorities bureau with a much forceful image.

The sanction alteration is expected to beryllium implemented successful an enforcement bid connected Friday, according to The Associated Press quality agency, quoting White House officials acquainted with the rebranding effort.

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The “Department of War” volition go the secondary sanction for the Department of Defense until legislative enactment tin marque the sanction alteration permanent, according to an unreleased information sheet.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote “DEPARTMENT OF WAR” successful a station connected societal media supra a quality communicative connected the reported change.

Hegseth made nary different comment.

DEPARTMENT OF WAR https://t.co/uyAZGiklRi

— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) September 4, 2025

President Trump had said a sanction alteration would punctual radical of past US subject victories successful World War I and World War II, erstwhile the US was an emerging superpower.

“Everybody likes that we had an unbelievable past of triumph erstwhile it was Department of War,” helium told reporters precocious past month.

“Then we changed it to Department of Defense,” helium said.

“Defense is excessively defensive. And we privation to beryllium defensive, but we privation to beryllium violative too, if we person to be,” helium said.

The Department of Defence was antecedently known arsenic the “Department of War” from 1789 until a reorganisation of the US subject astatine the extremity of World War II, which concluded successful 1945.

It was past renamed the National Military Establishment pursuing a merger with different departments successful 1947, and the sanction was aboriginal amended to the Department of Defense.

Those sanction changes were made done an enactment of Congress.

The defence section is often referred to arsenic conscionable the “Pentagon”, aft the unsocial signifier of its office adjacent Washington, DC, oregon it is referred to by its initials, “DOD”.

US media reported that it is inactive unclear however Trump volition marque the sanction alteration permanent, but Defense Secretary Hegseth volition beryllium instructed to prosecute ineligible and legislative means, according to reports.

Hegseth made remarks akin to Trump’s regarding the department’s sanction successful an interrogation connected the US transmission Fox News, stating that his bureau wants a “warrior ethos”.

“We privation warriors, folks that recognize however to nonstop lethality connected the enemy,” helium said.

“We don’t privation endless contingencies and conscionable playing defence. We deliberation words and names and titles matter. So, we’re moving with the White House and the president connected it. Stand by,” helium said.