Department of Defense becomes War Department under Trump’s order

president Donald Trump Friday ended a week with an executive order signed to change the name of the Ministry of Defense to the Ministry of War.

Executive Order allows the green light to use the name of the Ministry of Defense as a secondary title of the Ministry of Defense, as well as the terms such as the Minister of Defense, such as the Minister of War. Pete HegsethAccording to the White House fact sheet.

The order also calls on Heggs to propose legislative and executive action to permanently consolidate its title as the U.S. Department of War.

Additionally, a White House official told Fox News numbers that implementing the order would mean changes to public-facing websites and office signage Pentagon. One change on the horizon, for example, is to rename the Public Affairs Briefing Room “Pentagon War Annex,” noting that other long-term projects will also appear, the official said.

Trump renames the Pentagon to restore the historic “Ministry of War”

The United States used the Department of War’s military agency title until 1949, but revised it to the Department of Defense to align with several reforms in the 1947 National Security Act.

Trump sent a signal in late August that this could happen.

“Everyone likes that we had an incredible victory history when we were in the War Department. Then, we changed it to the Defense Department,” Trump told reporters on August 25.

Here’s what happened this week:

About the Cartel’s War

Trump also announced that a military strike on a Venezuelan ship suspected of drug use in the Caribbean of the Southern United States killed 11 suspected Tren de Aragya Nalco Foresters.

Trump shared a video on social media on Tuesday depicting a strike against Venezuelan ships, just days after he authorized the dispatch of three U.S. Navy missile destroyers to strengthen government business efforts in the region.

“You have a lot of drugs,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday. “We have audio tapes.

Maduro claims we seek “governmental change through military threats” in the Caribbean

Tensions between Venezuela and the United States continue to escalate. On September 4, 2025, two Venezuelan aircraft flew over a U.S. Navy ship in international waters, the Pentagon said. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool via Reuters; Brian Snyder/Reuters)

“Obviously, they won’t do it again. I don’t think a lot of other people will do it again. When they watch the tape, they’ll say, ‘Let’s not do it.’ We have to protect our country and we’re going to be a really bad actor.”

After the destruction ship was deployed, Maduro said Venezuela was ready to respond to any attacks and said the ship’s presence in the region was “a luxury, unreasonable, immoral and an absolute threat of crime and bloodshed.”

“Faced with this greatest military pressure, we declared our greatest preparations to defend against Venezuela,” Maduro said in a press conference on Monday.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon confirmed Thursday that two Venezuelan planes buzzed in international waters.

“This highly provocative move is intended to interfere with our anti-Narco terrorist operations,” the Defense Ministry wrote in a statement to X.

Space Command Headquarters Move

Trump also announced plans on Tuesday The headquarters of the Space Command From Colorado to Alabama – end the controversy over where the order will be.

Space Command has been operating at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, but Trump Long supports the transfer of the command’s headquarters to Huntsville, Alabama. But in 2023, the former president Joe Biden The announcement will remain in Colorado.

Trump plans to move Space Command to Alabama, opposing Biden’s order to keep it in Colorado

President Donald Trump reestablished Space Command in 2019. (Getty/AP Newsroom)

“The U.S. Space Command headquarters will move to a beautiful place, the Huntsville, Alabama, from that point on, is known as Rocket City.”