Pete Hegseth: “As the president has said, we’re not just defense, we’re offense.”

This request is an urgent, necessary injection of resources to address the immediate needs of our department.

Training, lethality, accountability, discipline, readiness — the bedrock of what it means to be an American warrior — is the only focus of our department.

The amount of neglect, the amount of stale thinking and bureaucracy; it was staggering when we took over.

A lot of our capabilities are classified, but if anybody in the world can reach anything on God’s green Earth, it’s the United States military, the most powerful military in the world.