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Articles by Pete Hegseth

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks during a mock news conference with college students in the Brady Press Briefing Room in Washington, Thursday, April 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

PETE HEGSETH: Obama’s slow-drip Iraq strategy

''I have never been more proud of a president than when Bush announced the Iraq surge on Jan. 10, 2007." That's the honest sentiment of an Iraq war veteran recently returned from that trying battlefield. I served in Iraq from 2005 to 2006 and witnessed some of the worst moments of the war, including the bombing of the Samarra golden mosque -- an event that unleashed sectarian violence across the country.

May 3, 2016
Kaitlyn Samuels

COTTON, MANDEL AND HEGSETH: Caring for the troops with Kaitlyn’s Law

Kaitlyn Samuels is not a household name. More people should be aware of her story, though, because she represents a growing number of military families that are being left in the cold by the Department of Defense and its military health insurance provider, Tricare.

May 7, 2013
President Obama (right) and his chief of staff, Jack Lew, confer. Mr. Lew, who previously served as the president's Office of Management and Budget chief, is said to be under consideration for Treasury secretary. (Associated Press)

HEGSETH: A new Treasury pick but no hope for change

"And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account, to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day, because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government." Those were President Obama's words, in his first inaugural address in January 2009.

February 4, 2013