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Pete Hegseth: “The United States must win the strategic competition for…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Published | Video Starts at 06:49

The result is a risk averse culture that prevents us from providing our warfighters with the best resources that America has to offer. That ends today. Simply put, The United States must win the strategic competition for 21st century technological supremacy. Artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, quantum hypersonics and long range drones. If you talk to Elon Musk long enough, he will tell you how important hypersonics and long range drones are. (06:49–06:56)

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Asserts that the U.S. needs to achieve technological supremacy in the 21st century.

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