During a White House press event on Aug. 25, President Donald Trump remarked that the Department of Defense name “didn’t sound good” to him.

“Department of Defense, I don’t want to be defense only,” he continued. “We want defense, but we want offense, too.

The president noted that under the old moniker, the Department of War, the United States enjoyed an “unbelievable history of victory” that included the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, the wars against Native Americans, the Spanish-American War, World War I and World War II.

“We’ve reestablished at the department the warrior ethos. We want warriors, folks that understand how to exact lethality on the enemy,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told “Fox & Friends” several days later.

“We don’t want endless contin

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