Pete Hegseth: “We do not approach this challenge with needless confrontation but with the posture of measured and deliberate strength.”

It is a day and night difference. Training, lethality, accountability, discipline, readiness — the bedrock of what it means to be an American warrior — is the only focus of our department. Colorblind, gender-neutral, merit-based. That’s it.

When you rip out DEI, when you rip out social engineering and social justice and you put in merit, and then you untie the hands of commanders to enforce discipline and accountability, to get back to basics, then you get historic…

Every dollar appropriated will be used to build the lethality of US military forces and reinforce peace through strength.

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