Greece (Eurotoday) Pete Hegseth was raised in Minnesota and enrolled at Princeton University in 1999, where he played basketball, studied politics, and contributed to The Princeton Tory, the university’s conservative newspaper. He graduated in 2003, completing both his degree and the Army ROTC program. Hegseth then joined the Minnesota National Guard before transitioning to the Army National Guard, where he attained the rank of major and earned several military honors, including two Bronze Stars.
In 2012, Hegseth ran as a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota but withdrew before the party’s primary. He became a Fox News contributor in 2014 and was named cohost of Fox & Friends Weekend in 2017. After Donald Trump secured a second term as president in 2024, he nominated Hegseth for the position of U.S. Secretary of Defense.
Hegseth has been a vocal critic of the military leadership, accusing generals and other officials of being overly focused on “woke” policies such as diversity and equity, which he claims have undermined military strength. He has also advocated for pardons of soldiers convicted of war crimes. Hegseth has detailed his views in several books, including The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free (2024).
Leading Pentagon
blank”>Pete Hegseth has attracted lots of attention by opening many social and operational subjects from day 1. Perhaps this is his way of approaching it, because according to his political views, the woke agenda has no place in the Army, which has “sacrificed” funds and capital on the matter.
The fact is that he wants the Army to be a war machine that will shape into “US Pride/Patriotism” and then to his indefinite voting pool. His view is not so different from his predecessors, from the opposite point of view, who wanted a social and inclusive army that includes all human capital and again is a voting pool for Democrats. The way was lost by the time the Pentagon has become a battlefield of political debate.
During his campaign, Donald Trump emphasized a distinction between “fighting generals” and “woke generals,” pledging to dismiss the latter. In a recent interview on the Shawn Ryan Show podcast, Pete Hegseth blank”>outlined an approach that could signal troubling times for senior Pentagon officials.
Hegseth stated, “First of all, you’ve got to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs,” referring to Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. He added that any general, admiral, or leader involved in diversity, equity, and inclusion programs or what he described as “woke stuff” should also be
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