The latest round of announcements brings us someone entirely new and from well outside the military-industrial complex to head the Department of Defense. In a brilliant and unconventional move, President-elect Trump has selected Pete Hegseth as the next Secretary of Defense.

Former Trump insider Alyssa Farah Griffin weighed in on the president-elect’s choice to nominate Fox News host Pete Hegseth as the Secretary of Defense this week.

President-elect Donald Trump stunned the Pentagon and the broader defense world by nominating Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as his defense secretary, tapping someone largely inexperienced and untested on the global stage to take over the world’s largest and most powerful military.

When Elisa Smithers was deployed to Iraq in 2005, there was a ban on women serving in ground combat operations. She now fears the progress made for women since then will be reversed after President-elect Donald Trump announced Pete Hegseth this week as his pick for secretary of defense – a Fox News host and Army veteran who has criticized efforts to allow women into combat roles.

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, has said that he believes women should not serve in combat and that he wants to see the military purged of “woke” officials who support diversity,

Hegseth has in the past also made disparaging comments about veterans groups who have advocated for combat veterans receiving disability benefits after returning home