One social media user said, “If you’ve spent the last decade begging for a Nobel Peace Prize,” rebranding the Defense Department as the Department of War is “not exactly a winning strategy.”

The US president has sought to refocus the department on "warfighting" and a "warrior ethos".

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Friday to rebrand the Department of Defense as the Department of War, his latest effort to project an image of…

The president has claimed the current name is too "politically correct."

President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Friday to rebrand the Department of Defense as the Department of War, his latest effort to project an image of toughness…

Move is attempt to formalize name change without an act of Congress, as US president says: ‘We’re just going to do it’

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Friday that will officially change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

The department’s name was originally the ‘War Department’ until 1949, Mr Trump claiming it was changed to be ‘politically correct’

President Trump to rebrand Department of Defence as Department of War through executive order, projecting military toughness.

The name, abolished in 1949 to signal a focus on preventing wars, is being restored as a ‘secondary title’ to project a more powerful image.

The change would return the department to a name that it carried for much of its history, until it became the Department of Defense in the wake of World War II.

The president has claimed the current name is too "politically correct."

President Donald Trump recently said ‘defence is too defensive’ as the US wants ‘to be offensive too’.

An executive order rebranding the Defense Department as "War Department" was due to be signed by President Donald Trump on Friday as he marked his 200th day in office.

Order directs Pete Hegseth to seek congressional approval for permanent change from Department of Defense

President Donald Trump on Sept. 5 ordered his administration to rename the Department of Defense the \

The head of the US administration noted that the possibility of renaming the Pentagon had been discussed for several months

One social media user said, “If you’ve spent the last decade begging for a Nobel Peace Prize,” rebranding the Defense Department as the Department of War is “not exactly a winning…

One social media user said, “If you’ve spent the last decade begging for a Nobel Peace Prize,” rebranding the Defense Department as the Department of War is “not exactly a winning…

The US president called the move a return to a time before America went ‘woke’.

WASHINGTON: After months of campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize, President Donald Trump sent a sharply different message on Friday when he signed an executive order aimed at…