President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth indicated that they will soon change the name of the Defense Department back to the “Department of War.”

Trump backed the name change on Monday, while Hegseth said from the Oval Office that it is “coming soon.”

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“It used to be called the Department of War,” the president said. “It had a stronger sound. … Now we have a Department of Defense, we’re defenders. If you people want to, standing behind me, if you take a little vote, if you want change it back to what it was

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