Pete Hegseth

Of course, the integration of the military racially was a huge success.

It was a huge success because black men and Hispanic men and others can perform just as well as white guys in any capacity that they're given.

So the reality of life reinforced that the bigotry we saw on the outside should not be tolerated inside the military, and the military did a great job doing that.

But now we're pushing boundaries and lots of different levels that are different than that, because men and women are different, because

being transgendered in the military causes complications and differences.

And the book kind of lays out the common arguments that those on the left or others make, which are baked in social justice.

So it started, you know, you saw it under Clinton with the tinkering of don't ask, don't tell and the reasons for those changes.

And I talked to some of the people involved when that was changed.

But it really happened, started to accelerate under Obama.

And you saw it with...

You saw the trans stuff come at the end of the Obama administration.

You saw the women in combat come at the end of the Obama administration.

It's because they looked around at the bureaucracies that they controlled in Washington and the one that they didn't control.

Obama spent a disproportionate amount of time focusing on

They were skeptical of leadership and eventually brought in political appointees and generals who would do their bidding the way they wanted, which, as you know, in a top-down organization, changes the ethos of the whole thing.

So the book is meant to pull the whole curtain back, mostly from

Obama forward and explain how the army that I enlisted in or that I swore an oath in 2001 and was commissioned in 2003 looks a lot different than the army of today because we're focused on a lot of the wrong things.

I mean, you know this.

You could talk about it all day, I bet.

Yes, I do.