It's really not the right thing to be bikeshedding. The people calling the shots call themselves the Department of War. No need to die on hills that don't matter.

While I agree the name change has not (yet) been made with the proper authority, I'm quite partial to the name and prefer to use it despite its prematurity. I think it does a better job of communicating the types of work actually done by the department and rightly gives people pause about their support of it. Though I'm sure that wasn't the administration's intention.

It SHOULD be called the Department of War, as it was originally, since it makes its function clear. We are a society that has euphemized everything and so we no longer understand anything.

It's addressed to Hegseth, who insists on calling it that.

If they had called it DoD, then that would have been another finger in his eye.

But it sets the tone.

And what if congress renames it tomorrow? They have the votes. These sort of procedural gotchas are as stupid as they are boring.

Less hypocritical than Defense. US has never been on the defense, always offense since it was renamed in 1947.

It is called the Department of War because we live under fascism and Congress no longer matters.

All that matters is that everyone calls it the Department of War, and regards it as such, which everyone does.