President Donald Trump said on 25 August that his administration plans to restore the U.S. military’s civilian leadership to its historical designation, the “Department of War,” replacing the current “Department of Defense.” He told reporters that the change could be adopted within the next week, adding that his Cabinet would vote on the proposal. Explaining the move, Trump said, “I don’t want to be defense only. We want offense too,” and argued that the former title reflected a period when the United States “won everything.” He credited Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth with advancing the idea and asserted that, in the meantime, his administration had “stopped all of these wars.” No official documentation of the name change has yet been released.