Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth says the new name signals a more offensive approach for the US military under Trump.
By Al Jazeera Staff
United States President Donald Trump has signed an order changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War in all executive statements.
In a signing ceremony from the Oval Office on Friday, Trump said the name change was part of a larger shift away from a “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.
