Pete Hegseth: “Nothing is off the table, but nothing's automatically on the table.”

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.

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

Without extra money from Congress, the department would face critical shortfalls that threaten our ability to pay our service members, rapidly replenish equipment and munitions, and sustain vital operations without disruption.

We make sure that every ship, every crew, every captain has everything we can provide them at every single moment.