President Trump on Monday floated returning the Department of Defense to its prior name, the Department of War — arguing the name it has held since the 1940s is "too defensive." The renaming took place in the wake of World War II, part of a broader reorganization of the U.S. military that placed the Army and Navy into a single Cabinet-level agency. The War Department — which oversaw the Army — dated back to President George Washington's first term, but in the late 1790s, Congress created a separate Navy Department to oversee the new country's naval forces and, later, the Marine Corps.
Author: Joe Walsh
Published at: 2025-08-25 22:24:32
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