Pete Hegseth: “President Trump seeks peace ... but in order to bring that peace, we will be strong.”

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…

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.

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

Some deployments are longer than others, and I have more respect and gratitude for those sailors than anybody.