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NEWPORT, R.I. – War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that the United States is in the midst of “the most far reaching strategic recalibration of our national security posture since the end of the second world war,” telling students and faculty at the Naval War College that the shift is “deeper and more profound than the fall of the Soviet Union.”
“Under President Trump’s America First foreign policy paradigm and the 2026 National Defense Strategy, the assumptions that guided American statecraft for 80 years have been overturned,” Hegseth said in the Monday morning address.
He spoke as he faces a renewed impeachment push in the House tied to the Iran war and other military operations, which Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has backed. Hegseth also stressed that the service colleges must produce leaders focused on winning wars.
Why it matters: the remarks frame the administration’s military posture, including the Iran campaign, as a historic doctrinal break rather than a series of operations. Still unknown: what specific force, budget or alliance changes the Pentagon plans to carry out under the new strategy.
Archival photo: Secretary Hegseth at the Pentagon in September 2025. Credit: DoW.
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