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boca_honeytoday at 3:27 PM1 replyview on HN

That's the official name. The preferred one by the government is Dept of War. [1]

As the original poster said:

> If you're going to call people stupid or immature for making certain decisions, maybe take a couple minutes to find out who made the decisions, and/or what the history of those and similar changes has been.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/09/fact-sheet-pr...


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afavourtoday at 3:45 PM

Well I think the operative question here is “preferred by who?”. The current government prefers it. Voters do not. None of us are obligated to indulge the “secondary title” nonsense in an executive order clearly designed to sidestep the actual legal process for a name change.