This is The Guardian.

Today, has the U.S. Secretary of War broken the law?

He put highly classified plans to bomb Yemen on a group chat.

How a reporter from the Atlantic was added to a group chat discussing upcoming military strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen.

He believes American soldiers shouldn't always be bound by the Geneva Convention.

We follow rules, but we don't need burdensome rules of engaged

that make it impossible for us to win these wars.

He thinks it's funny to post memes about military strikes.

He ordered executions of Venezuelans in the sea,

reportedly insisting they kill everybody,

even when the survivors who are seen clinging onto a boat could pose no threat.

He sunk the boat, sunk the boat and eliminated the threat. And it was the right call.

Pete Hegseth is what happens when the president is Donald Trump.

When a former Fox News talk show host can hold one of the most powerful jobs in the world,

U.S. Secretary of Defense, in charge of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Coast Guard, the Pentagon. But this isn't just an over-promotion

that could go badly wrong for the White House. Pete Hexeth is on a mission to push his vision

of American warrior culture on the world. From The Guardian, I'm Noshin'Igbal.

Today in focus, a dramatic shift in US foreign policy, and the man behind it.

Joseph Jeddian, you're a breaking news reporter for the Guardian US based in Washington, which means

you're first on the politics beat. Can we go back a little bit in Pete Hegeseth's story? And can

you tell me what we know of where he came from to be where he is now? Absolutely. So Pete

Hexeth's story, it starts pretty typical Midwestern USA. He's born in

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