重播：赫格塞斯在卡萊爾陸軍戰爭學院演講

我們很快就會看出你們的下一個任務 恭喜你們 我今天來是為了記錄第一次 並分享我們目前所達成的成果 我被叫來接這個任務 他們告訴我兩件事 第一件事是 你必須要堅強如雷 第二件事是 他不是開玩笑的 這件事 這份任務需要一個鋼筋 這也沒問題 我們正在為美國人民和戰爭做努力 第二件事 總統對我說 我想你恢復我們軍人的戰爭意志 完全停止 這就是我一整天都在做的 我一整天都在做的 戰鬥對你來說 是一輩子的榮幸 是一輩子的培養 從第一天開始 到每100天 我們的目標 已經清晰了 恢復戰爭意志 恢復我們軍人的戰爭 恢復戰爭意志 養成高等執政權 要保持我們軍人和母艦 高等讓人堅持 要堅持 你必須相信 你身邊的士兵 在戰爭期間 很多將會離開的 We need to be fit, not fat, sharp, not shabby, especially our leaders. And that's why we're reviewing how the department has maintained standards in the past, especially the past four years, and whether those standards have dropped, formally or informally. We're also welcoming back former service members who were wrongly forced to leave the military. More than 8,700 service members were involuntarily separated for not taking an experimental COVID-19 vaccine. Others were more informally pushed out or decided to get out. We are welcoming actively back those warriors of conscience. We've sent letters out. We're seeking them out. We want them back. They never should have been forced to come back quickly. Personnel and readiness department is working in real time to make that process more and more efficient, more and more direct every single day. And as we welcome those warriors back, we're giving... We've said goodbye to the harmful effects of culture and... inclusion program. AI content, eliminating quotas, and promotions are based on performance, not immutable characteristics. DE...at DOD. Based culture, individual initiative, excellence and hard work. We're also working hard to protect command climate. We're going to be reviewing IG and EO processes that too often are weaponized against commanders in formation. I can't tell you how many men and women I hear from about to take battalion or brigade leadership or wing leadership, you name it, who feel like they're walking on eggshells because of...put in place that undermine a commander's ability to lead. We are reviewing that all. We're also optimizing the civilian workforce, ensuring that we have the right employees in the right roles at the right time to support our war fighters. We're doing this by... ...possible through offering like voluntary... We're doing this by... ...possible through offering like voluntary... So... ...productivity telework and remote work culture. Teams work best when they work together in person. Butts in seats, not on Zoom. We're making accountability and high performance the watch words for the department. At all levels, we expect employees to deliver results and respond to leadership needs. Their incentives and their performance plans, we believe, quickly and in real time will reflect that. It's a lot of change very quickly. Now, as you may have noticed, the media likes to call it chaos. We call it overdue. How are the men and women responding to this, to this call? Well, I can tell you personally it's going better than we could have ever expected. This department, and you know it, across the joint force is filled with patriots who want nothing more than to focus, be laser focused on serving their country. And that's why retention is rebounding as well big time in real time. But one of the clearest metrics so far is actually coming from outside the military. The enthusiasm of young Americans in particular is off the charts. You know firsthand how challenging it has been to recruit in recent years. It's a legitimate recruiting crisis where we couldn't recruit enough men and women into the military, so we lowered the amount required and still didn't meet the amount of people required in recruitment. That's over. Last few months, the Army has had its best recruiting number since 2010. The Navy is on track to have its best recruiting year since 2002 when I was born. 2010, members of my staff get, they get referred to me of people who ruled out in the president's leadership enthusiastic about going to boot camp or OCS and serving their nation. The other branches are on track to well exceed their targets as well. It is a recruiting renaissance of America's best and brightest. When our standards are high, when the mission is clear, when we prioritize war fighting over wokeness, that energizes the young men and women of our country, the very patriots over this American experiment we have always needed. They're proud of their country. They're proud of our military. And like generations before them, they will rise to the challenge set before us. As leaders, all of us, all we have to do is keep raising the bar and putting the mission and our people first. That's reviving the warrior ethos. Second objective is rebuilding our country. We've all served long enough to see the downward trajectory of readiness in our forces. Well underway just 100 days in. He has declared and delivered on the mission of rebuilding our military. Our goal is to put the best systems in the hands of war fighters to ensure minimum lethality. You should never be in a fair fight. That's our job. First,we are rapidly moving to moving on one of President Obama's promises which is a golden dome for America wide mission to protect Americans from the threat of nuclear, hydrogen and conventional weapons. Here in our homeland. Another incredibly exciting program is the newly announced and further to benefit from the projection of power. Allies,we're not going anywhere. And to our enemies, we're to project power around the globe for decades to come. These investments are not just in golden dome and F-47. Historic investments in the border, hypersonic, in long range drones, in ship building, in modernization, you name it. At any time, while our citizens be protected from the worst that our enemies could possibly throw at us. Defending the homeland. It's not just these marquee programs. It's we've been assessing the department from top to bottom to ensure that we're not just wonky, but very important. We're reinforcing the software acquisition pathway as our preferred model. We have it, and when we need it. And just this week, we recently announced a major development. President Trump outlined in his executive order on defense acquisition for the last four years. We're building a munitions war room in which we can expand critical mineral production. Including rare earth elements, heavy rare earth elements. Light rare earth elements. All the things we need that need to be made at home or by our allies and partners. And President Trump has created but in the White House to restore our maritime industrial base. Military more efficient. Meeting the war fighters' needs in the most cost effective manner and reallocating savings to our most mission critical areas. That's why we went through an exercise of finding 8% reductions across services. Of course, the media ran with it and called them cuts. No, this is how you plan and prioritize. You look where you can do more with less. And you shift out old priorities and move in new. Maximum efficiency focusing on what you need now and in the future. Through our partnership with the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE, earlier this month, we identified $5.1 billion in savings. And that's just the beginning. We're ending contracts for business process consulting, enterprise cloud IT services and duplicative IT services. Massive contracts that no one ever looks at. Where people push a lot of paper and make a lot of PowerPoints and give a lot of consultations. See, we can use that money for better health and mission critical programs from process to people, from consultants to corporals. The bottom line is force for the challenge. We're prioritizing what works and cutting what does not. And yes, as the President announced from the Oval Office, we need to rethink our role at the previous administration level. Co-comm commanders at the tip of the spear to understand and deliver. We need to have the most advanced weapons at this point, which leads to our third goal, re-establishing deterrence. After four years of deferred maintenance under the Biden administration, this was extremely, and you saw it from my point of view, in great shapes, raising canyons. Our borders first. After decades of securing other people's borders in far-off places, after a reckless invasion of over 20 million people and we have no idea of what they will do to foster and consolidate our military plan at DOD to protect our people from cartels, drugs, violence, death. Under the Trump administration, it ends. Under this Defense Department, we get 100 percent operational control of our borders. We started in 1991. We'll continue through 2021. 97 years of border crossing compared to the same period in 2024. Monthly incursions drop from 250,000 soldiers, most of which are false asylum claims. You also have the known gotaways and the unknown gotaways, so it's much higher than 250,000. We don't know where most of these people are coming from. Now to the trickle of a few thousands, all of which, most of which, we're interdicting and engaging because of our forced population on the border in real time. It starts with people. It moves to infrastructure and surveillance. And our American troops, you should see their morale on the border. It's incredible. When you're defending your own homeland with robust and sufficient assets and you are able to interdict, it changes the whole game. We just designated a trial area for a new national defense area where our troops now, instead of just looking at the border with binoculars and wondering who that person is and hoping CBP interdicts them, can now temporarily take action to temporarily detain those folks and hand them over to CBP because of that authorized zone. It's a sea change from the open season that was the previous administration. But not just here at home. In three of the most strategically important regions in the world, we are increasing allied burden sharing while we increase deterrence. America first doesn't mean America alone. It means we expect our allies to step up to be true force multipliers for freedom. This approach ensures we achieve peace through deterrence. First in Europe, our allies are finally, thanks to President Trump and the first administration and again in these first 100 days, following America's call for European leadership and ownership of continental security. We transferred U.S. leadership of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group to the U.K. and to Germany. We've obtained commitments from Poland, one of many model allies, the Baltics, to spend 5% of their GDP on defense. We've made the same call to other allies. 2% is not enough considering the threats you face. 3%, 4%, 5%. We've made progress with major European powers who are setting initial targets even to one I spoke to just this morning to increase their defense spending. The time of the United States, if you're in Pennsylvania, if you're in our country, the sole guarantor of European security has passed. It's long overdue. Europe has to step up to become a military and lead NATO. In the Middle East, we're pursuing stability and deterrence to the threats that exist there. President Trump has made it clear that America is fully committed to the security of our great allies in Israel. Just days after his inauguration, the DOJ blocked Israel's self-reliance and pursued President Trump's goal of attacking Yemen. The Defense Department is executing lethal operations against Houthi terrorists. Our forces have struck hundreds of targets and decimated Houthi leadership, substantially reducing their capabilities and the threat to U.S. ships in the Red Sea and across through the Bamboo. We have demonstrated America's commitment to defending and restoring freedom of navigation, which we will do and are doing. This is a clear, limited mission executed with ruthlessness, full stop. We will run our ships through that BAM. And our message to the Houthis has been clear from the beginning. Allow us to sail our ships and we'll stop shooting at you. Until then, you're going to feel the pain. And I'll tell you, the Houthis are feeling the pain. We have demonstrated any aggression against Americans will be met with decisive action, unlike what that region saw under the Biden administration. But this is not nation-building. This is not land wars. This is not endless wars. This is not regime change. This is clear-eyed American national interest, decisively and overwhelmingly. Third and most importantly, we are deterring Communist China in the Indo-Pacific and around the world. To deliver peace in this region, we're delivering a more forward regional force posture. We're supporting allies and partners. Allies and partners are our force multipliers as they strengthen their own capabilities, including in Taiwan. We're also connecting U.S. allies and partners and more resilient. And there will be a lot more of it. In fact, in March, I took my first trip to the Indo-Pacific as Secretary, the first trip to Guam in 20 years from a defense secretary. I traveled to the Philippines to meet with President Marcos and his Secretary of National Defense. We reaffirmed the long-standing strength of the U.S.-Philippines alliance, a key piece in our strategy to deter and counter the Communist Chinese. We also traveled to Japan on that same trip and later on a trip that a few of you may have seen to Panama. At each stop, we announced new bilateral exercises, increased cooperation for military sales deals, commitment to President Trump's vision of peace through strength. In the Philippines, we are deploying more advanced capabilities, including Nemesis anti-ship missiles. In Japan, we announced phase one of upgrading U.S. forces Japan into a full-blown joint forces headquarters. In Panama, we secured a framework for first phase two of Panama Canal passage for U.S. military vessels and auxiliary vessels, as well as the additional presence of U.S. troops stationed through both sides of the Panama Canal. As I said then and I will reaffirm today, the President pledged to take back the Panama Canal from Chinese influence and with our partners, we're doing just that, right in our own backyard. At every step, we are carrying out our strategy to increase our influence against China. Before, in these places, when you meet with leaders who want to be with America, who believe in what America can do, have watched us when we're strong, they're making, in many cases and in many places, a binary choice. It is either by, with and through the Americans or with the Communist Chinese. In the Indo-Pacific, around the world, but specifically in the Indo-Pacific and in our hemisphere, you can see it. You can see it in the eyes of allies and partners. You can see it in the influence underneath the surface. They want to be with us, but they need to see strength and they need to see leadership. And that's what President Trump has provided in spades, not just in words, but in deeds, in action. So as Europe shoulders more of the burden in continental security, that frees up resources for us to focus on countering the malign influence of the Communist Chinese where it matters most. Under the leadership of President Trump, the message to our adversary in these first 100 has been undeniably clear. America is back. At the Defense Department, that means no more distraction, no more social engineering, no more climate change worship, no more electric tanks, no more gender confusion, no more pronouns, no more excuses, no more quotas, no more woke bullshit that undermines commanders and command climates. We are laser-focused on our mission of warfighting. We are colorblind and we are merit-based. We're restoring the warrior ethos, rebuilding the military, and reestablishing deterrence and full stop. Enemy aggression will be met swiftly and harshly. We're beginning a new golden age of America and a golden age of national defense. We have a bumper crop of new recruits, new planes, new missile defense systems on the way, allies increasing their defense spending and adversaries on their heels. Today, we have a brand new class soon to be Army War College students about to graduate. You, all of you, are the future of our military. You will lead these new recruits, eager, optimistic, young, ready, and soon to be trained. They will look to you. You will lead the brigades, the ships, the groups. You will execute our tactical, operational, and strategic objectives all around the globe. You will set the standard. We're counting on you. And I know that you will deliver at each and every step with the same heart. God bless you. Godspeed to all of our warriors. And thank you for having me today. Thank you very much. Secretary Hickson, thank you for joining us this morning for communicating with us in private. It's been 35 years of service to our nation that at the heart of the warrior ethos are discipline,fit, and confidence in all of us. We've been investing for most of this past year in the intellectual fitness of the leaders that are on the field here with you today. But we're going to take a step away from that for the next several days and engage on the fields of friendly strife and demonstrate some physical fitness. There's still,I've been told, some open spots on our teams here. What teams? Softball,soccer,functional fitness, running,pickleball,shooter's choice,sir. But... I got a good lefty swing. I'll maybe join the softball team. Well,then you'll be in uniform with this,sir. We want to present that to you. Well,I appreciate it. Very good. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you all. Appreciate it.