Pete Hegseth: “Absolutely not. Anonymous smears.”

Current and future training would have to be curtailed if the Pentagon does not get its budget needs met urgently.

The conflict has now cost an estimated $37.5 billion, up from $29 billion in mid-May.

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?

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…