President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

“This is something we thought long and hard about. We’ve been talking about it for months,” Trump said as he was signing the order in the Oval Office.

“I think it’s a much more appropriate name, especially in light of where the world is right now,” he said.

“We have the strongest military in the world. We have the greatest equipment in the world. We have the greatest manufacturers of equipment by far. There’s nobody to even compete,” he added.

A department revamp

The Defense Department was originally named the Department of War under President George Washington in 1789. In 1947, the department split into the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force a

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