Over the radio I heard a news update on the name change go thusly: "President Trump has changed the name of the Department of Defense back to the Department of War. It had originally been established as the Department of War under President Washington. After World War II, the name was changed to the Department of Defense to reflect the US's rejection of its former aggressive policy towards war."

Now the editorializing in the last sentence is just wholly inappropriate for a news update in the first place. I want to stress, this wasn't from a pundit or even a long form news show, it was one of those brief updates they put in the commercial breaks on the radio. However this one is particularly ridiculous. What person would look at the military history of the US and say that the staunchly isolationist pre-WWII US was "more aggressive" than the world policeman post-WWII US?