The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to rename the US Department of Defence as the Department of War, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
Restoring the Department of War name for the government’s largest department would likely require congressional action, but the White House is exploring alternative methods to implement the change, the report said.
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump made comments emphasising the US military’s attacking capabilities.
US President Donald Trump and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth have made a number of changes to the country’s military. (Picture: Mark Schiefelbein/AP)“As President Trump said, our military should be focused on offense, not just defence, which is why he has prioritised warfighters at the Pentagon instead of DEI and woke ideology,” said White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly, using the initials DEI to refer to programs aimed at increasing diversity, equity and inclusion.
Trump raised the idea of rebranding the Defence Department as the Department of War while speaking with reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, saying it “just sounded to me better.”
“It used to be called the Department of War and it had a stronger sound,” Trump said. “We want defence, but we want offense too … as Department of War we won everything, we won everything and I think we’re going to have to go back to that.”
The War Department became the Department of Defence through a gradual process, and the name was officially enshrined in US law in 1949.
Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have been working to promote a more aggressive image of the military while making a spate of other changes.
These include purging top military leaders whose views are seen as being at odds with Trump’s, and seeking to ban transgender individuals from joining the military.
The Pentagon says transgender people are medically unfit, something civil rights activists say is untrue and constitutes illegal discrimination.
With additional reporting from Reuters
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