Signs have been swapped out at the Pentagon. Social media pages have been updated.

These are some of the early changes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to rebrand the Department of Defense as the Department of War.

Trump said it's intended to send a message of "victory" and "strength" to the world moving forward, but it also echoes a previous era.

The federal agency overseeing the U.S. Army was called the Department of War for more than a century and a half. In 1947, President Harry Truman signed legislation renaming and reorganizing the department to incorporate other branches of the military in the wake of World War II.

"I think it's a much more appropriate name, especially in light of where the world is right now. We have the strongest military in the

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