Pete Hegseth

I heard that all the time, eggshells.

I'm a commander, I walk on eggshells.

I train commanders.

they're walking on eggshells.

They're afraid of one misstep on one identification or one gender thing or one racial thing or one trans thing.

And the priorities are upside down on what the units are focusing on.

And every single one of those distractions means we're less good at our job, which is supposed to be closed with and destroy the enemy on behalf of our nation and bring our boys home.

That's all I care about.

That's what I want a military focused on.

And so...

Yeah, I tell a few of my own stories in the book, but the book's not about me at all.

How do you think that this is happening?

Well, it's a long story.

So the...

Well, I think it's because they're ideologues who want to bring a meritocracy to heel.

That's where I think it starts.

I think you have politicians who don't want to tolerate an institution.

First, they want to use it to tinker.

And then they also don't want to tolerate an institution that's antithetical to their social experiments.

Because the military, you know, the book lays this out.