President Trump will rename the Defense Department the Department of War, Fox News first reported and the White House confirmed Thursday.

Why it matters: The Trump administration has focused on restoring a "warrior ethos" to the Armed Services under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. • "As Department of War, we won everything. We won everything," Trump said last month. "I think we're going to have to go back to that." • Hegseth recently renamed his Pentagon conference room the "W.A.R. Room."

Driving the news: Trump will sign an executive order on Friday to restore the historic name "Department of War" as a secondary title for the Department of Defense, according to a White Official. • The order will also authorize Hegseth and subordinate officials within the executive branch to use se

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