Only Congress can change the name of a federal department, so the Department of Defense is still properly called that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14347

The Department of Defense was established by the National Security Act of 1947. If the Congress wanted to change the name then they would pass another law to do so.

An executive order is not law.

because most americans do not want war, at least id hope, so calling it that seems pretty short sited (maybe until you continually do that 'war' thing), if you want the citizens to look positively on your spending it should probably be for defense not war, again, at least i should hope. im just a dumb "lib" whatever that means

Gulf of Mexico.

>Why DoD and not DoW?

Reddit/Bluesky brigade is in full force here, that's why

DOW was already taken, and that is the one to watch when it all comes crashing down?

Perhaps because the latter sounds hilariously childish?

law of triviality on full display

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Because using DoW is woke when the legal name is DoD.

Pretty ironic given their anti-woke agenda