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Sebastian Gorka: “We are the greatest military the world has ever, ever seen.”

Featuring: Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to the President, Senior Director for Counterterrorism | National

A Conversation With Sebastian Gorka

Published March 20, 2026 | Video Starts at 1:00:41

Every day. Every day we have a morning sink, we have an afternoon sink. I want this to be managed in a way that brings success with rapidity. We are the greatest military the world has ever, ever seen. Sometimes in the past we have left the non kinetic aspect of war, fighting the informational as an afterthought. It used to even be called Phase seven in planning. (1:00:41–1:00:45)

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“The administration named Iran the first state sponsor of wrongful detention.”
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“We have liberated under [the President's] leadership, 101 Americans.”
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“That's more than four years of Biden.”
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“The Chinese dominance [in drones] has ended because of the President's decision through the FCC in December.”
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“70% of combat casualties in Ukraine are not from artillery pieces. They're not from small arms fire. They are from drones.”
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“Iran has to be dealt with. The president is correct.”
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“The rector of the NCTC is never a member of the Cabinet.”
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“One of the reasons that we have had this absolutely historic level of success in everything the President's done, not just economically, but…”
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“The operational security of this administration is because how tightly we've held these incredibly strategic decisions.”
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“The NCTC is a clearinghouse and coordinating body for intelligence on terrorist threats and it works for a Cabinet member who happens to be…”
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“Every significant terrorist threat we face, especially in the Middle East, once you scratch the surface within a nanometer, there's Iran.”
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“Operation Epic Fury is going to solve perhaps the most trenchant and strategic terrorist threat the world faces today.”
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“The sovereignty of nation states, especially America, is paramount.”
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“If you don't control who comes into a country, you are not a sovereign nation.”
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“We have an Iran that is so degraded.”
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“They don't have [training camps] anymore because of the first Trump administration.”
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“The actors who are plotting to kill, even the recent individual who was put in prison for trying to plot against the president. Who were…”
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“Their capacity to do us ill is being degraded every single day.”
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“If you don't have the decision makers, you will eventually be combat ineffective.”
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“On the contrary, absolutely. That's utterly fallacious.”
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“I run the United States Government Counterterrorism Strategic Group every Thursday morning with every element of the counterterrorism…”
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“Iran being the biggest state sponsor of terrorism.”
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“Russia is doing many things to affect its national interests in ways which are antithetical to the transatlantic alliance and US Interest…”
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“The President's priority is to end what we have called in the building the meat grinder, that is the war in Ukraine.”
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“The idea that we are not taking seriously any other irregular threat tied to a nation state would be incorrect.”
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“Iran lost this massive resupply route to its proxies to smuggle weapons, monies, individuals.”
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“We would like [Iraq] to be sovereign as well and not to be an appendage of Iran.”
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“Numerous Arab states have assisted in the training of those nascent CT capabilities.”
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“What the SDF has done, what the new regime in Damascus has done, and what the government in Baghdad has done has made all of us safer.”
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“The first Trump administration crushed the physical caliphate of ISIS.”
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“President Trump, when He was the 45th president, roundly jettisoned that garbage, said, we are not going to live with a physical caliphate…”
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“Arab jihadists are having to hide out in the Lake Chad Basin of Africa.”
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“In the draft counterterrorism strategy we've prepared for the president...revitalize the counter jihadi propaganda capabilities of the US…”
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“After four years of Biden, where these African nations were treated either like dirt or ignored.”
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“The U.S. embassy, yes, we'll be flying the transgender lunacy flag...ram it down the throats of African cultures.”
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“We're having to undo all of that colonial attitude of the Biden administration.”
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“The people of the benighted nation of Iran were allowed to know how much money the Islamo fascist regime has given to not just Shia proxies…”
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“The real numbers are classified. If we told the story of the quarter, 1/4 of the actual number, I believe the mullahs would be swinging from…”
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“Venezuela doesn't have a nuclear bomb program, thousands of missiles, and isn't funding proxies to the tune of billions of dollars.”
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“You will not be permitted to develop nuclear weapons.”
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“You must stop developing and using ballistic missiles.”
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“You must cease all funding of terror proxies.”
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