President Donald Trump says he wants to change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War.
It would be a return to the department's original name it carried until 1949, when it was changed during a post-World War II rebrand.
Trump addressed the media in the Oval office on Monday morning, saying, 'It used to be called the Department of War. It had a stronger sound… we are defenders.'
He added in part, 'It just sounded bad to me, on behalf of the Department of Defense? I don't want to be defense only. We want defense, but we want offense, too, if that's okay.'
'As the Department of War, we want everything, and I think we're going to have to go back to that.'
