November 9, 2025

Courtesy of The Gateway Pundit, here’s the speech by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth which was given to leaders of the Military Industrial Complex on November 7th, 2025.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivered a pointed warning at the National War College in Washington, D.C., on November 7, declaring that the most significant threat to America’s strength comes not from abroad, but from within its own defense establishment. 

Introduced by Deputy Secretary of War Steve Feinberg, Hegseth criticized the Pentagon’s entrenched bureaucracy—an expansive network of committees, consultants, and redundant offices that he says drains resources and weakens U.S. military readiness.

For decades, the Pentagon has evolved into one of the most complex bureaucratic systems in the world, employing over 750,000 civilian workers and managing a budget exceeding $850 billion. 

Defense contractors are meeting with Secretary of War Hegseth today – draft list of invitees

Among the invitees: 

1. Anduril Industries
2. Anthropic 
3. Amazon Web Services (AWS)
4. BAE Systems
5. Boeing
6. Castelion
7. Divergent 
8. EaglePicher Technologies 
9. Epirus 
10. General Dynamics 
11. Google Cloud 
12. Google Public Sector
13. HII (Huntington Ingalls Industries) 
14. Honeywell International
15. Hermeus
16. Karman Space & Defense
17. L3Harris Technologies 
18. Leidos
19. Lockheed Martin 
20. Meta (Facebook)
21. Microsoft
22. Nammo Defense Systems
23. Northrop Grumman
24. Oracle
25. Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials
26. Palantir Technologies
27. Rivet Industries
28. RTX (Raytheon Technologies)
29. Saronic Technologies
30. Shield AI
31. Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC)
32. SpaceX 
33. Textron Inc.
34. Ursa Major Technologies

President Dwight David Eisenhower’s Farewell Speech (1961)

A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction. . . . American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. . . . This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. . . .Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. . . . In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

How much government do we really need?

Elon Musk was recently interviewed by Joe Rogan. Here’s a short clip posted on Zerohedge.com where Musk says that the federal budget could be cut in half and more would get done. He asks the question “How much government to we really need?”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cut-federal-budget-half-and-get-more-done