In November 2024, president-elect Trump announced that he intends to nominate
Hegseth for Secretary of Defense.In picking Fox News Channel host Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense, President-elect Donald Trump has selected a military veteran and popular conservative media personality with a large following of his own
His books:
Hegseth, Pete (2016). In the Arena. Threshold Editions. ISBN 978-1-4767-4934-1.[40]
Hegseth, Pete (2020). American Crusade. Center Street. ISBN 978-1-5460-9874-4.[41]
Hegseth, Pete (2022). Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation. Broadside Books. ISBN 978-0-06-321504-7.
Hegseth, Pete (2024). The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free.
Hegseth has served in the military, although he lacks senior military or national security experience.
After graduating from Princeton University in 2003, Hegseth was commissioned as an infantry captain in the Army National Guard, serving overseas in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as at Guantanamo Bay.
He was formerly head of the Concerned Veterans for America, a group backed by conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch, and also unsuccessfully ran for the Senate in Minnesota in 2012. According to his Fox News bio, he has a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
As Trump formulated his first Cabinet following his 2016 win, he reportedly considered Hegseth to run the Department of Veterans Affairs. He again considered Hegseth when Secretary David Shulkin faced criticism before his ouster in 2018.
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NY Post:
How Pete Hegseth’s book on ‘woke’ Pentagon helped him land secretary of defense nomination
By Anna Young
Published Nov. 12, 2024, 11:43 p.m. ET
Trump shocked political observers Tuesday night by tapping the “Fox & Friends Weekend” co-host – a vocal Trump supporter and advocate for exiling military leadership who enforce diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives – to serve as defense secretary.
Hegseth, who has served tours of duty in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay as an infantry officer, is the author of “The War on Warriors,” a best-selling book in which the Trump nominee blames the “woke military” for the recruiting crisis facing the nation’s armed services.
“For the past three years – after President Barack Obama poured the social justice foundation – the Pentagon, across all branches, has embraced the social justice message of gender equality, racial diversity, climate stupidity, and the LGBTQA+ alphabet soup in their recruiting pushes” Hegseth wrote in his book, released in June.
“Only one problem: There just aren’t enough lesbians from San Francisco who want to join the 82nd Airborne. Not only do the lesbians not join, but those very same ads turn off the young, patriotic, Christian men who have traditionally filled our ranks.”
“The book reveals the leftwing betrayal of our warriors, and how we must return to our Military to meritocracy, lethality, accountability, and excellence,” wrote the president-elect, who frequently railed against “woke generals.”
“With Pete at the helm, America’s enemies are on notice — Our Military will be Great Again, and America will Never Back Down.”
