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

This request is an urgent, necessary injection of resources to address the immediate needs of our department.

Shame on you and others who call this a quagmire and a failure, and then you want to turn around and say you support the warfighter. Either you do or you don't.

What they do in those high seas in those austere conditions with less port calls — it's incredible.

The Iranian defense industrial base is effectively gone, but they do have underground facilities because they're the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, and they've spent 47 years trying to hide their missiles under mountains, just…