Pete Hegseth: “I start by saying I reject the premise that President Trump would be giving any illegal orders at all.”

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

We hope it doesn't have to go in that direction.

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

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.