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Pete Hegseth: “We mean to increase acquisition risk in order to decrease…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Published | Video Starts at 08:28

And five, provoke war speed or warp speed by procuring rapidly and sustaining readily, cost effectively as the default, not the exceptions. So, in short, those are broad principles. We mean to increase acquisition risk in order to decrease operational risk. Let me say that again. We mean to increase acquisition risk in order to decrease operational risk. (08:28–08:36)

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Asserts a strategy to increase acquisition risk to reduce operational risk.

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