First, my job is to make it easier for you to do your job by clearing away the debris. It's a daily struggle at the Pentagon. We have our war against bureaucracy, and it is real. It is a war of attrition that I've told my staff every single day we will wage to win a war of attrition for four years, that we will fight and win. The bureaucratic nonsense, the political correctness, the red tape that have nothing to do with readiness, war, fighting, or lethality. We are taking a chainsaw to all of it. (19:48–20:03)
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Asserts that there is an ongoing effort to combat bureaucracy within the Pentagon.
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