President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Friday to rebrand the Department of Defense as the Department of War, a move that the administration says better reflects the mission of those serving in uniform—but mostly feels like a pointless name change.

“Restoring the name ‘Department of War’ will sharpen the focus of this Department on our national interest and signal to adversaries America’s readiness to wage war to secure its interests,” according to a document describing the forthcoming order obtained by The Washington Post.

Trump has been teasing the change for weeks.

“We call it the Department of Defense, but between us, I think we’re going to change the name,” he said in August. “We won the World War 1, World War 2—it was called the Department of War, and to m

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