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Pete Hegseth: “The Maven System is a very effective tool.”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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The intention was to compress the kill chain, and the result was an attack that killed almost 200 children. Would you agree that tragic actions like this prove that when we trade time and humans for safety, people die? The Maven System is a very effective tool. And inside that we use, we have very prescriptive processes by which we ensure as much precision as humanly possible in very complex battlefield. (03:36–03:41)

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