Pete Hegseth

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Hegseth walked into Quantico, kicked the stool out from under the Pentagon’s therapy culture, and told the brass we’re done preening and back to making warfighters who can carry the ruck, drive on and win the fight.

When loyalty and television polish outrank operational competence, we get a Secretary of Defense who mistakes bluster for strategy and puts American troops and national security at risk.

From where I sit, you don’t win trust by lecturing warfighters; until Pete Hegseth owns his gaps, listens hard, and speaks candidly with the President and the flag officers, he’ll keep driving the people he must persuade into polite, passive resistance.

When the SECDEF orders 800 of the nation’s top brass to Quantico without a whisper of an agenda, that’s not a meeting—it’s a thunderclap that rattles coffee cups from Ramstein to Okinawa and has every colonel quietly checking his golden parachute.

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