Donald Trump is rebranding the US Department of Defense as the Department of War, the White House has announced.

The president is due to sign an executive order today reverting to the agency’s original name, according to an official.

Although the current stamp is set out in law, the move will introduce a ‘secondary title’, a White House document said.

Trump’s administration is implementing a ‘warrior ethos’ within the Pentagon, and will introduce other phrases such as ‘Secretary of War’ for Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth, according to the fact sheet.

Speaking to Fox & Friends on Wednesday, Hegseth said: ‘We won WWI, and we won WWII, not with the Department of Defense, but with a War Department, with the Department of War.

‘We’ve reestablished at the department the warrior ethos. ‘W

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