Pete Hegseth, the Fox News host and Army National Guard veteran who President-elect Donald Trump picked on Tuesday to be his secretary of defense, wrote the literal book on how woke ideology has conquered the military.
In “The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men who Keep us Free,” Hegseth’s fifth book, he wrote about personally witnessing the military go through changes. In fact, he says he was pushed out of the Army because of those changes.
“I joined the Army in 2001 because I wanted to serve my country. Extremists attacked us on 9/11, and we went to war. I became an infantry officer in 2003. I guarded terrorists at Guantánamo Bay in 2004. I led men in combat in Iraq in 2005. I pulled bodies out of burning vehicles in Afghanistan in 2012. I held a riot shield outside the White House in 2020,” he wrote in the introduction.
“And in 2021, I was deemed an…
