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Pete Hegseth: “We're going to make sure we orient properly toward emerging…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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But we also need to ramp up to ensure we're prepared for with the most robust capabilities possible, learning from other conflicts, to move to future conflicts, to understand how we orient toward future threats. And that's the last piece. We're going to make sure we orient properly toward emerging threats and reestablish deterrence. So we're rebuilding the military, but we're also re establishing deterrence. What happened in Afghanistan with the debacle is unacceptable. What happened with the invasion of Ukraine under Joe Biden, unacceptable. (14:59–15:06)

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Asserts intention to focus on emerging threats and reestablish deterrence.

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