Pete Hegseth: “I supported doing so to restore freedom of navigation and reestablish deterrence, which I described as being cratered…”

The best way to create peace is to prepare for war, to deter it.

Some deployments are longer than others, and I have more respect and gratitude for those sailors than anybody.

You — you don’t have a strategy, you don’t have a long-term plan to actually win this war. Win the war! The men and women are going to be able to do it, but they need leadership. When will you show leadership?

President Trump needs the type of leaders who understand why a $1.5 trillion dollar budget, a one-time generational investment, is what is necessary to ensure that my kids and your kids, that your grandkids and my grandkids, live in a free…