U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday chided past celebrations of the U.S. military's diversity in a broad address to Pentagon staff in which he also promised a tougher approach to NATO ...

Technology firms, including Amazon and Meta, have begun to roll back their company’s diversity initiatives. Hegseth’s attack ...

Our unity and our shared purpose is our strength, and the Pentagon is excited to get back to that core mission. It's happening rapidly, the services are responding, and those that don't want to ...

Hegseth’s attack on the phrase “diversity is our strength” has been done in the past by his colleagues at Fox News such as ex-anchor Tucker Carlson back in 2018.

Going forward, the military will find strength in unity, not diversity, according to Hegseth. "I think the single dumbest phrase in military history is ‘ our diversity is our strength,’" he said.

Diversity very clearly is our strength. Powell observed that the U.S. military has 200 years of experience in making excellent warriors out of men, and women, who were not born to it. They can do ...

Our strength is our shared purpose.” Hegseth has followed Trump’s lead in pushing to root out DEI programs in the government and moving to ban transgender troops from serving.

“I think the single dumbest phrase in military history is ‘our diversity is our strength,’” Hegseth has said. “I think our strength is our unity. Our strength is our shared purpose.” Maegan Vazquez ...

That “diversity is our strength” is one of those obvious contradictions that people with common sense instantly recognize as hooey. It is poisonous hooey, mind you.

Hegseth pointed the failed war in Afghanistan, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Hamas' surprise attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 as events that have eroded the global view of American strength.

Hegseth: 'Diversity is our strength' is dumbest phrase in military history. April 11, 2025. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday (February 7) ...