The White House confirmed that the U.S. Department of War is back, first spending billions of dollars to rebrand
According to the U.S. "Politico" website on September 4 local time, U.S. President Trump will sign an executive order on September 5 local time to rename the "Department of Defense" as the "Department of War," which is said to be part of a broader effort to show the world a more aggressive and invincible army.
Meanwhile, other major U.S. media outlets have also generally reported this news, and the White House has also confirmed it. A senior U.S. government official quoted by Politico has also confirmed this renaming plan, but according to another informed source, this move may require legislative action by Congress, and the White House is seeking alternative solutions that do not require congressional voting.
On September 4 local time, U.S. Defense Secretary Austin posted a link to a report from his former employer, Fox News, on the X platform, with a caption - "Department of War." ABC cited the White House's statement that the Secretary of Defense may also use the title of "Secretary of War" afterward.
"As the Department of War, we won everything, we won everything," Trump said last month when referring to the two World Wars: "We must go back to that era."
The U.S. Department of Defense is one of the federal administrative departments of the United States. Its predecessor can be traced back to the Department of War established in 1789, responsible for overseeing the operations and management of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.
In 1947, the U.S. government centralized military administration, and then-President Truman signed the National Security Act, unifying military command under the newly established "National Military Establishment." In addition to the Departments of the Army and Navy being under its jurisdiction, the U.S. elevated the Army Air Forces, which were originally under the Army, to an independent U.S. Air Force and established a separate Air Force Department directly under the "National Military Establishment." In 1948, the U.S. revised the National Security Act again, renaming the "National Military Establishment" as the Department of Defense.
POLITICO pointed out that changing the names of hundreds of Pentagon agencies, as well as the stationery, insignia, plaques, and identification signs at bases around the world, is expected to cost billions of dollars, and this cost may severely impact Trump's efforts to cut Pentagon spending.
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