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Pete Hegseth: “We're in middle phase one right now, which is effectively a…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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A Century of Miseducation w/ Pete Hegseth

Published | Video Starts at 30:31

… last part of the book what an educational insurgency would look like because I was a counterinsurgency instructor in Afghanistan and kind of the phases that Mao wrote about and We're in middle phase one right now, which is effectively a tactical retreat. where you regroup, consolidate and reorganize and as you do so, you build your army underground with, with the opportunity later on of, of, of, of taking offensive operations in an overt way. (30:31–30:36)

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Asserts that the current strategy is a tactical retreat.

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