Encouraging our warriors to ignore the orders of their Commanders undermines every aspect of 'good order and discipline.'

Vague rhetoric and ambiguity undermines trust, creates hesitation in the chain of command, and erodes cohesion.

Five of the six individuals in that video do not fall under [Defense Department] jurisdiction.

We’re going to cut our hair, shave, shave our beards and adhere to standards.

whole bunch of new options to the United States

To defend our homeland, remove narcoterrorism from our hemisphere, and secure our homeland from the drugs that are killing our people.

The Department has spent over TWO DECADES defending other homelands. Now, we’re defending our own. These narco-terrorists have killed more Americans than Al-Qaeda, and they will be treated the same. We will track them, we will network…

Nothing's off the table, but nothing's automatically on the table.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the 17th known strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean region hours after the vote.

My advice to foreign terrorist organizations is do not get in a boat.

If you're trafficking drugs to poison the American people and we know you're from a designated terrorist organization, you're a foreign terrorist or trafficker — we will find you and we will kill you.