President Donald Trump will rename the Department of Defense to the “Department of War,” the Washington Examiner confirmed.

Trump will sign an executive order renaming the Pentagon on Friday, restoring the department’s name from the 18th century.

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The executive order will also grant Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth the title of “secretary of war.”

Hegseth will propose legislative and executive actions to make the name change permanent, the order says.

With the new name, the Department of Defense will require a complete rebrand across its web presence and at the Pentagon. Th

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