Trump symbolically changes Department of Defense to Department of War'

"United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War. In a ceremony from the Oval Office on Friday, Trump said the name change was part of a larger shift away from woke ideology within the department. He added it would beckon in a new age of military victory."

"So we won the first World War. We won the Second World War. We won everything before that and in between. And then we decided to go woke and we changed the name to Department of Defense, Trump said. We should have won everywhere. We could have won every war, but we we really chose to be very politically correct or woke, he said."

"The Department of Defense had previously been called the Department of War from 1979 to 1947. The name change following World War II when Congress passed the National Security Act of 1947, which consolidated the branches of the US military under a single civilian-headed department. Historians have said the name was also meant to signal an emphasis on preventing war amid the new threat of nuclear destruction."

President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War and directed use of that name in official White House correspondence and public statements. The order also directs the Secretary of Defense to be referred to as the Secretary of War. A permanent name change would require Congress to pass new legislation. The department had previously been called the Department of War from 1979 to 1947; the National Security Act of 1947 renamed and consolidated the military branches under a civilian-headed department. The change was framed as shifting away from 'woke' ideology and restoring a warrior ethos focused on fighting to win.

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