Pete Hegseth: “That freedom must be maintained by this generation of leaders and war fighters or what they fought for was merely…”

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

At the Department of War, we do training, not tr***ies.

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

I honored the Iowa soldiers killed in Kuwait, while saying the U.S.-Iran conflict was necessary to keep Americans safe.