{"id":399051,"date":"2025-09-05T04:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399051\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T04:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:33:11","slug":"trump-to-rebrand-the-pentagon-as-the-department-of-war-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399051\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to rebrand the Pentagon as the ‘Department of War’ | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump is to rebrand the US Department of Defense as the “Department of War”, according to the White House.<\/p>\n

The president will today sign an executive order allowing it to be used as a secondary title for the US government’s biggest organisation.<\/p>\n

It also means defence secretary Pete Hegseth will be able to refer to himself as the “secretary of war” in official communications and ceremonies.<\/p>\n

\"Mr<\/p>\n

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\n Mr Hegseth could refer to himself as ‘secretary of war’ under the change. Pic: Reuters<\/p>\n

Mr Hegseth posted the words “DEPARTMENT OF WAR” on X on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Permanently renaming the department would need congressional approval, but the White House said the executive order will instruct Mr Hegseth to begin the process.<\/p>\n

The Department of Defense – often referred to colloquially as the Pentagon due to the shape of its Washington HQ – was called the War Department until 1949.<\/p>\n

Historians say the name was changed to show the US was focussed on preventing conflict following the Second World War and the dawning of the nuclear age.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump<\/a><\/strong> raised the possibility of a change in June, when he suggested it was originally renamed to be “politically correct”.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

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\n The department is often just referred to as the Pentagon. Pic: Reuters<\/p>\n

His reversion to the more combative title could cost tens of millions, with letterheads and building signs in the US and at military bases around the world potentially needing a refresh.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden’s effort to rename nine army bases honouring the Confederacy and Confederate leaders, set to cost $39m (\u00a329m), was reversed by Mr Hegseth earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Read more from Sky News:<\/strong>
The proxy war that will redefine US public health<\/a>
Judge says Trump’s National Guard deployment was illegal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Opponents have already criticised Mr Trump’s move.<\/p>\n

“Why not put this money toward supporting military families or toward employing diplomats that help prevent conflicts from starting in the first place?” said Democratic senator Tammy Duckworth, a member of the armed services committee.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump’s other federal renaming orders include controversially labelling the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf Of America”<\/a> <\/strong>and reverting North America’s tallest mountain, Denali in Alaska, to its former name of Mount McKinley.<\/p>\n

The Mexican government and Alaska’s Republican senators both rejected the changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump is to rebrand the US Department of Defense as the “Department of War”, according to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-399051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115149826118983713","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}