Pete Hegseth: “But the United States will no longer tolerate an imbalanced relationship which encourages dependency.”

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

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

This department pays tribute to Lindsey Graham in the naming of this base, but there could be no greater tribute than for Congress to give and invest in our warriors for the full $1.5 trillion.

Training, lethality, accountability, discipline, readiness — the bedrock of what it means to be an American warrior — is the only focus of our department.