Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday doubled down on his push to eliminate the department’s diversity, equity and ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday chided past celebrations of the U.S. military's diversity in a broad address to ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth held a town hall with Defense Department employees on Friday and announced his intentions as the Pentagon chief. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PETE HEGSETH: Restoring the ...

Hegseth also called "Our diversity is our strength" the "single dumbest phrase in military history," and intends to end the ...

DEFENSE SECRETARY PETE HEGSETH: Well, DEI is not going well ... Jesse, one of the dumbest phrases in military history is, our diversity is our strength. Our diversity is not our strength.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in his Pentagon town hall Friday, touched upon many of the same, ...

The announcement affects 11 annual diversity celebrations including Juneteenth in June and Holocaust Days of Remembrance in ...

Then Hegseth, who has been critical of the emphasis on diversity inside the military, fumbled his own line. “The dumbest phrase in our military is ‘unity is our strength,’” he said.

Pete Hegseth is an outspoken critic of diversity, equity and inclusion programs, blaming them for some of the recruitment challenges the military has faced in recent years. He denounced “woke ...

Going forward, the military will find strength in unity, not diversity, according to Hegseth. "I think the single dumbest phrase in military history is ‘our diversity is our strength,’" he said.

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be U.S. Defense Secretary walks after a meeting in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington ...

In fact in the ’90s, tens of thousands of Haitian and Cuban migrants [were] staged there as part of a crisis,” Hegseth said. Between 2020 and 2023, only 37 migrants were held at Gitmo, according to ...