Trump renames the Department of Defense of the United States as a war department

The President of the United States Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Friday 5 September 2025, to change the name of the Department of Defense at the war department.

The White House announced it on Thursday 4 September, saying that Rebrand would project a more powerful image.

While the official name of the Department is put in law, Trump in an executive order is authorizing the use of the new label as “secondary title” by his administration, said a document of the White House.

Defense officials are authorized to use “secondary qualifications as” secretary to war “, in official correspondence, public communications, ceremonial contexts and non -statutory documents within the executive branch”, according to the document.

It was not immediately clear when Trump planned to sign the order, but his public program for Friday said he would have signed executive orders in the afternoon and made an announcement in the oval office.

The president, an expert marketing real estate developer, has repeatedly affirmed in the last few weeks to reflect on the genre.

At the end of last month, the 79 -year -old republican said that the title of the Defense Department was too “defensive”.

The war department “was the name when we won the First World War, we won the Second World War, we won everything,” he told journalists on August 25th.

According to the document of the White House, the change of name “transmits a stronger message of promptness and resolution”.

Established in the first days of the United States independence, the war department historically supervised the American land forces.

A reorganization of the government after the Second World War brought him together with the United States Navy and the Unified Air Force, which in 1949 was retouched to the Department of Defense.

“The restoration of the name of” war department “will refine the focus of this department on our national interest and will signal the promptness of America to conduct the war to guarantee its interests,” said the document of the White House.

The move is the last revision to the Pentagon since Trump entered office in January and appointed the former Fox News Pete Hegseth conductor to lead the Tentacular Department.

Hegseth, a combat veteran, repeatedly propagated the push to restore a “warrior ethos” in the department and accused the previous administrations for the policies that he and Trump derived as “awakened”.

Hegseth has particularly tried to expel the transgender troops from the military and to change the names of the bases that honored the troops confederated to their original titles, after being renamed under the former president Joe Biden.

While the Trump order could potentially be canceled by a future president, “it instructs the secretary to the war to recommend actions, to include legislative and executive actions, requests to permanently rename the department, said the document of the White House.

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