President Donald Trump’s administration may seek to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, reversing a change enacted under the National Security Act of 1947.
Trump on Monday during a press conference in the Oval Office said he would support the new name and questioned why the Pentagon abandoned the War Deparment title after World War II.
“Why are we Defense? So it used to be called the Department of War, and it had a stronger sound,” Trump said.
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