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Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order renaming the Pentagon’s Department of Defense back to its historic title — the Department of War. Calling it a return to America’s “warrior ethos,” Trump argues that the U.S. secured victories in World War I and World War II under the War Department, but lost its offensive edge after the switch to Defense. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, now to be called Secretary of War, backs the shift as a cultural and strategic reset for the military. But will Congress allow this move to stand? Or is Trump rewriting America’s military legacy on his own?

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00:00And so, Pete, you started up by saying the Department of Defense, and somehow it didn't sound good to him.
00:05You know, it didn't sound good. Defense.
00:24And so, Pete, you started up by saying the Department of Defense, and somehow it didn't sound good to him.
00:30You know, it didn't sound good. Defense. What are we defense? Why are we defense?
00:34So it used to be called the Department of War, and it had a stronger sound.
00:40And as you know, we won World War I. We won World War II. We won everything.
00:45Now we have a Department of Defense with defenders.
00:48I don't know. If you people want to, standing behind me, if you take a little vote,
00:52if you want to change it back to what it was when we used to win wars all the time, that's okay with me.
00:57All right? You let me know if you want to do it. I think Department of War.
01:02It just sounded bad. He said, sir, on behalf of the Department of Defense.
01:05Defense. I don't want to be defense only.
01:08We want defense, but we want offense, too, if that's okay.
01:11So you'll make a decision.
01:13But, you know...
01:13You want defense, too, if you want defense.
01:14You want defense, I mean blackmail, but we want defense, too.
01:17You want defense, too.
01:19We want defense.
01:21You have defense against all kinds of things.
01:22Never can use defense, too.
01:23Listen, toб
01:39actor and actor.
01:39Transcription by CastingWords
02:09CastingWords
02:39I started my sentence by saying, the Department of Defense, to which you said that just doesn't sound right.
02:49So maybe next time we're here, my card will read Department of War.
02:52We'll see.
02:53But it's not, here's the thing, here's what people miss.
02:57It's not just about words.
03:00It's about the warrior ethos.
03:02It's about what the department is supposed to do.
03:05George Washington started the Department of War because he wanted us to win our wars.
03:10They did, our founders didn't want endless foreign entanglements.
03:13They didn't want endless contingencies and deployments.
03:16They wanted an empowered military that was, the handcuffs were taken off to fight to win.
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