Trump will change Pentagon name to war department, says agency

Since taking office in January, Trump has decided to rename a series of places and institutions, including the Gulf of Mexico, and restore the original names of the military bases that were changed after protests against racial justice.

Changes in department names are rare and require Congress approval, but Trump’s Republican peers have a small majority in the Senate and the House of Representatives, and the party leaders in Congress have shown little appetite to oppose any of Trump’s initiatives.

The US Department of Defense was called War Department until 1949, when Congress consolidated the army, the Navy and the Air Force after World War II. The name was chosen in part to indicate that in the nuclear era, the US was focused on waiting wars, according to historians.

Changing the name again will be expensive and will require the update of signs and letterheads used not only by Pentagon employees in Washington, but also by military facilities around the world.

An effort by former President Joe Biden to rename nine bases that honored the confederation and confederated leaders were expected to cost the army $ 39 million. This effort was reversed by Hegseth earlier this year.

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