Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered top generals and admirals around the world to gather in Quantico, Va., where he announced new military standards.

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Hundreds of top-ranking U.S. generals have travelled to Washington for the meeting Pete Hegseth called. Here’s what Hegseth said.

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth addressed hundreds of top commanders from around the world.

After listing the proposed changes, Hegseth gave the assembled officers a warning: “If the words I’m speaking today are making your hearts sink, then you should do the honorable thing and resign.” If the commanders wanted to better understand what he was saying, he jokingly told them, they could pick up a copy of his book.

At Quantico, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—calling himself “Secretary of War”—unveiled a muscular reset: tougher standards, twice-yearly fitness tests for everyone, and a strategy pivoting from China toward the Western Hemisphere and homeland defense.

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