US President Donald Trump has announced a rebranding of the Department of Defence to the Department of War, the White House stated on Thursday. This change is intended to project a stronger image, according to Trump.
An executive order will allow the Department of War to be used as a “secondary title” for the expansive department, as noted in a White House document, due to the current official name being mandated by law.
The document highlights that this name change “communicates a more robust message of readiness and determination.”
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Recently, Trump has expressed his desire for this change, arguing that the department’s current name seems too “defensive.”
He told reporters on August 25 that the Department of War “was the name when we won World War I, World War II, we won everything.”
Initially established during the early years of US independence, the Department of War was responsible for overseeing American land forces.
Following World War II, a government reorganization brought it, along with the US Navy and Air Force, under the unified National Military Establishment. It was renamed the Department of Defence in 1949.
Trump’s order “directs the Secretary of War to propose actions, including legislative and executive, necessary to permanently rename” the department, the White House document indicated.
Officials are permitted to use “secondary titles…in official correspondence, public communications, ceremonial contexts, and non-statutory documents within the executive branch.”
