WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Sept. 5 ordered his administration to rename the Department of Defense the "Department of War," bringing back a Cabinet name abandoned in 1947 to match what White House officials call a new "warrior ethos" it is instilling in the armed forces.

Trump signed an executive order making the Department of War a new "secondary name" for the Defense Department.

The move empowers Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to use titles such as "Department of War," "Secretary of War" and "Deputy Secretary of War" in official government correspondence and communications without formally changing the department's name, which would require action from Congress.

"We won the First World War. We won the Second World War. We won everything before that and in between,"

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