OAN Employees Katherine Mosack2:51 PM – Saturday, December 6, 2025
United States Secretary of Battle Pete Hegseth delivered a keynote speech on the Reagan Nationwide Protection Discussion board, outlining the Trump administration’s imaginative and prescient for “peace by means of power.”
On Friday, talking to U.S. navy leaders and officers, Hegseth defended President Donald Trump because the professional successor to President Ronald Reagan.
“Like President Reagan, President Trump is devoted to each side of the peace by means of power coin, not simply utilizing that phrase as a skinny veil for struggle mongering,” he argued.
He mentioned that the Trump administration is reviving Reagan’s method after post-Reagan Republican “hawks” deserted the previous president’s insurance policies of disciplined and restricted use of navy for “grandiose, nation-building, moralistic and rudderless wars.”
The perpetual post-Reagan wars fought in Afghanistan and Iraq inform Trump’s technique, Hegseth mentioned, specializing in clear and achievable goals, and increase the navy to barter peace from a place of power.
“Out with Utopian idealism, in with hard-nosed realism,” was the important thing phrase of Hegseth’s deal with.
The Trump administration can be aiming to rebuild after 4 years of the Biden administration, which Hegseth argued was characterised by “wokeness, weak point, struggle.” In the course of the years between Trump’s two presidential phrases, struggle broke out between Ukraine and Russia and between Israel and Hamas.
Past sustaining peace in international nations, the Trump administration has put a heavy emphasis on strengthening its borders to create peace inside the nation.
“Border safety is nationwide safety and we’re prioritizing it accordingly,” Hegseth acknowledged.
He emphasised the Division of Battle’s help for its legislation enforcement companions from the Division of Homeland Safety in securing the southern border and deporting unlawful aliens.
Hegseth declared that the combat towards “narcoterrorism” below the Trump administration can be handled rigorously.
“These narcoterrorists are the al-Qaeda of our hemisphere and we’re looking them with the identical sophistication and precision that we hunted al-Qaeda,” the secretary acknowledged. “We’re monitoring them, we’re killing them. And we are going to hold killing them as long as they’re poisoning folks with narcotics so deadly that they’re tantamount to chemical weapons.”
“In our hemisphere there isn’t a secure haven for narcoterrorists,” Hegseth added.
The U.S. navy has to this point performed 22 strikes on alleged drug-trafficking vessels within the Caribbean Sea and the Jap Pacific Ocean for the reason that Trump administration launched the marketing campaign towards the “designated terrorists” in September.
Hegseth introduced the acceleration of a undertaking signed into legislation in an government order per week into Trump’s second time period that may create a missile protection system. This “Golden Dome” would proceed a canceled undertaking initiated by President Reagan with right now’s know-how and needs to be accomplished earlier than Trump’s time period ends.
Hegseth outlined America’s nuclear deterrent as “the muse of our nation’s protection.” He mentioned that the administration would work to modernize and usually take a look at the Nuclear Triad, the system of supply strategies for nuclear weapons, and promised to “by no means enable this nation to develop into weak to nuclear blackmail.”
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