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Our guest today is Justin Fultcher, former senior advisor to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth,

a guy who knows a thing or two about what is happening in terms of where

this department is and where it plans to go.

Well, thank you, Justin, for joining us on this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

Thanks so much for having me.

You bet.

Well, let's begin. What is it like working at the new

Department of War? Lots of changes going on there over the last year. And I know you worked there

for six months until you moved on. But what was that experience like? Working alongside Secretary

Hegg-Seth was an incredible experience.

And yeah, over the past year, we've seen tremendous changes, I think, you know, not only from,

you know, a cultural shift and getting back to, you know, focusing on what matters, which is

war fighting and being prepared, you know prepared for war to ultimately, you know,

pursue the peace through strength agenda.

But overall, I mean, on top of the cultural changes, I think we've just seen, you know,

Secretary Higseth really move out quickly on trying to pursue, you know, increased efficiency,

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