President Trump plans to rename the Defense Department as the Department of War

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A view of the Pentagon on Dec. 13, 2024, in Washington, D.C. President Trump has said he would like to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War.

The change would return the department to a name that it carried for much of its history, until it became the Department of Defense in the wake of World War II.

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