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by b800h 103 days ago
I thought it was supposed to be called the Department of War?
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Supposedly only congress can actually change the name, DoW is a "secondary name", whatever that means. But there is a lot of "supposedly" so the de facto reality seems different.
Maybe the "secondary name" is the part that comes after a colon, as in a book title:

  Department of Defence: The Department of War
That was DoA.