Opinion | Pete Hegseth Is the Secretary of Defense We Deserve

First let me hit you with some realities: The Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, has said that the West is not prepared for the challenges that will come over the next five years and that it's time to "shift to a wartime mind-set." Kori Schake, who directs foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, writes that while World War III has not begun, "a world war is approaching." Recent American defense strategy has been based on the optimistic assumption that we will have to fight only one war at a time. But the closer cooperation between…