Pete Hegseth: “'No more distractions, no more political ideologies, no more debris,' he said.”

It’s not about artificial enhancement,” Hegseth said in his video. “It’s about restoring and optimizing your natural capabilities, protecting your longevity and ensuring you have the biological foundation required to sustain the fight.

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.

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

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