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ARTICLE VIEW:
Trump signs executive order rebranding Pentagon as the Department of
War
By Samantha Waldenberg, Haley Britzky, Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN
Updated:
6:15 PM EDT, Fri September 5, 2025
Source: CNN
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to rebrand the
Pentagon as the “Department of War,” telling reporters in the Oval
Office it was a more “appropriate” name given the state of the
world.
“I think it’s a much more appropriate name, especially in light of
where the world is right now. We have the strongest military in the
world,” Trump said, before signing the order.
The order authorizes the Secretary of Defense, the Department of
Defense and subordinate officials to use secondary titles such as
“Secretary of War,” “Department of War,” and “Deputy
Secretary of War” in official correspondence, public communications,
ceremonial contexts, and non-statutory documents within the executive
branch, according to a fact sheet obtained by CNN. And almost
immediately, officials began to implement it.
Pentagon officials changed signage outside of Defense Secretary Pete
Hegseth’s office, and the department’s website got a revamp. The
old site, , is now rerouted to which displays “U.S. Department of
War” at the top. DOD — the acronym for Department of Defense — is
also replaced with DOW for Department of War in various headlines.
Hegseth, who joined the president in the Oval Office, said the name
change is “not just about renaming, it’s about restoring.”
Hegseth said the military will “go on offense, not just on defense”
and, reflected in the name change, the country will “raise up
warriors, not just defenders.”
The order also directs all executive departments and agencies to
recognize and accommodate the new secondary titles in internal and
external communications and instructs Hegseth to recommend actions,
both legislative and executive, to permanently rename the US Department
of Defense to the US Department of War, according to the fact sheet.
Though the fact sheet appeared to recognize Trump would need
Congress’s help to make the change permanent, Trump said Friday he
was uncertain of that.
“I don’t know, but we’re going to find out, but I’m not sure
they have to,” he said.
The news about Friday’s order was first reported by .
The last time the department’s name was changed took an act of
Congress.
The Department of War, as it as once called, was first established by
President George Washington when he founded the country’s Army. But
the name was later changed in 1949 as part of a broader reorganization
of the military under President Harry Truman.
Truman signed the National Security Act in 1947, which merged the
Department of the Navy, the newly created Department of the Air Force,
and the Department of the Army — previously the Department of War,
— into one organization called the National Military Establishment,
under the civilian secretary of defense. The National Military
Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense in August 1949.
The effort to rename the Pentagon follows a number of similar steps by
Hegseth to change the names of bases and ships. He reversed a Biden-era
decision that had removed Confederate-era names of bases like Fort
Bragg and Fort Hood, reverting to but officially naming them after
different individuals with the same names.
In June, Hegseth the renaming of an oiler ship named after gay rights
activist and Navy veteran Harvey Milk.
This story has been updated with additional information.
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