SE.BREAKING— Pete Hegseth steps into the storm. His words cut like glass, his tone unflinching. The world listens. 👉 SEE DETAILS HERE
Pete Hegseth, secretary of the newly renamed Department of War, made no bones about what he sees as the principal enemy in a keynote speech to military commanders at Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday – wokeness and all its advocates.
“We became ‘the woke department’,” Hegseth said in an address that seemed to designed to be as incendiary as possible. “Not any more. We’re done with that shit.”
The speech came on the back of questions over Hegseth’s authority and fitness for office after potential security breaches, including inadvertently adding a journalist to a group chat discussing highly classified war plans and sharing military operations with family members and his personal lawyer in a separate chat.
The secretary has also announced new media access rules for the Pentagon that require approval before even unclassified information is published. News organizations have pushed back, setting up a battle over press freedom.
Seeking to shift the narrative, the war secretary set his sights on several specific targets.
Here are some main takeaways:
