articlePresident Donald Trump will sign an executive order Friday to alter the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War — reverting to the agency’s former namesake, Fox News Digital has learned. The executive order calls for using the Department of War as a secondary title for the Department of Defense, along with terms like the "Secretary of War" for Hegseth, according to a White House fact sheet. "Everybody likes that we had an unbelievable history of victory when it was Department of War," Trump told reporters on Aug. 25 . (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Imag Expand"We won WWI and we won WWII, not with the Department of Defense, but with a War Department, with the Department of War. The executive order changing the name of the Department of Defense is the 200th order Trump has signed in his second term.