Guwahati, Sept. 6 -- President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing his administration to revive the historic name "Department of War" as a secondary title for the U.S. Department of Defense.

The order allows Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to use terms such as "Department of War," "Secretary of War," and "Deputy Secretary of War" in official correspondence and communications. A formal renaming of the department would still require congressional approval.

"We won the First World War. We won the Second World War. We won everything before that and in between," Trump said during the Oval Office signing. "And then we decided to go woke and changed the name to the Department of Defense. So we're going back to the Department of...