Hegseth Orders US Army to Restore Name of North Carolina Base to Fort Bragg

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has restored the name of Army base Fort Liberty in North Carolina to its original name, Fort Bragg, the Department of Defense (DOD) said in a Feb. 11 statement. Established in 1918, the sprawling military complex houses the Airborne and Special Operations Forces and is home to 57,000 troops, according to its website. It was originally named after Gen. Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general from Warrenton in North Carolina. That name was changed to Fort Liberty in 2023 as part of efforts to remove names, symbols, displays, monuments, or paraphernalia that honored officials and military personnel linked to the Confederacy, a group of Southern states that seceded from the United States and fought against it in the Civil War in the 19th century....