department of war, department of defense, trump, pentagon rebrand, military policy, congress, executive order, controversy, 2025

Date: September 5, 2025 Summary On September 5, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order to rebrand the Department of Defense as the “Department of War.” The move is intended to signal a stronger, more assertive U.S. military posture and to restore the agency’s original name, which it held from 1789 until 1947. Context and […]