How Pete Hegseth is pushing his beliefs on US agency: 'nothing to prepare forces'

More than 50 days into Donald Trump's second administration and his Department of Defense is already rapidly transforming into the image of its secretary, Pete Hegseth. Now, many of the rants and opinions common during Hegseth's Fox News career are coming to policy fruition in his new Pentagon. Hegseth inaugurated himself by scolding his Nato allies and confirming the US would never accept Ukraine into the alliance. Then his Pentagon immediately made leadership changes targeting women and people of color. He oversaw total deletions of all diversity, equity and inclusion programs, all the while slashing whole sections of the military…