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Pete Hegseth: “The lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan guide President Trump…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth keynote address at the Reagan National Defense Forum.

Published | Video Starts at 14:09

Like President Reagan, President Trump knows how to do so in a way that is tied to a clear purpose, with a decisive and credible theory of military victory. Just as the lessons of Vietnam informed Ronald Reagan and his Weinberger Doctrine, so too The lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan guide President Trump and his secretary today. For years, a bipartisan consensus of neoconservatives and liberal internationalists led us from one disaster to another. (14:09–14:15)

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Asserts that President Trump's policies are informed by the experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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