Pete Hegseth: “We're continuing in that lineage, undertaking a department…”

“Needless to say, many of those reform efforts were overtaken by the events that happened the very next day on 9 11. We're continuing in that lineage, undertaking a department wide transformation of requirements, acquisitions and foreign military sales. We're addressing a core function of what we do at the War Department, identifying what our warfighters need, how we buy those capabilities, and then how we share those capabilities with allies and partners, which in a contested world is becoming even more important.” (11:10–11:21)

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