Trump’s push to change Department of Defense to ‘War Department’ would turn back the clock to WWII
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Elections 2025
September 5, 2025
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s push to rename the Department of Defense goes beyond subjective word choices about whether to change a name that’s been in place since 1949.
On one hand is Trump’s argument that the historical name – War Department – more plainly reflects the bottom-line mission. Yet the idea, which still requires action by Congress, also would continue Trump’s flouting of the international order established after World War II.
And, besides highlighting the president’s branding proclivities, the issue exposes tensions between Trump’s and many of his predecessors’ platitudes about peace even as the U.S. has spent much of its existence on battlefields.
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