[ssl-3]

"DOW" here is an acronym for Department of War, and really should be fully capitalized in the title.

[Svip]

It's also still the Department of Defense; only Congress can change its name, and they haven't.

[ssl-3]

The article's title says "Department of War".

(I didn't write the title.)

[dudefeliciano]

it's a subtle kowtow to the administration, to call the DoD the DoW

[marginalia_nu]

Yeah title is currently likely to be interpreted as Dow Jones.

[cls59]

Or Dow Chemical.

[Retric]

DoW or more accurately DoD like WoW is less ambiguous than fully capitalized.

[ssl-3]

I considered the small "o". But the precedent for US government TLAs seems to be to capitalize the whole thing: https://www.justice.gov/nsd-ovt/us-government-acronym-list

[thatcat]

wouldn't it be DoW, like DoD?