The Pentagon’s website and social media channels were overhauled Friday at President Donald Trump ’s behest to reflect the United States Defense Department’s new “Department of War” persona, shifting from Defense.gov to War.gov—a symbolic rebranding that highlights the administration’s preference for projecting strength through the language of war rather than the idiom of defense.

Trump on Friday signed an executive order directing the Pentagon to once again be named the so-called Department of War, reviving a name retired after World War II to mark America’s turn to deterrence as the principle bulwark against nuclear annihilation.

At an Oval Office ceremony, Trump said the change was about attitude, declaring, “It’s really about winning.”

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