New details are leaking about why Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called top military officials from around the world for an in-person meeting in Virginia next week.

The former Fox News personality-turned-top Trump official reportedly wants to make a video of his short speech.

Hegseth will being addressing military standards and the “warrior ethos,” multiple people familiar with the planned event told The Washington Post.

A White House official separately told CNN that the meeting is meant to be a show of force of what the new military looks like under Trump.

In the speech, Hegseth will reportedly discuss the Trump administration’s reinvention of the Defense Department as the “Department of War” and address new readiness, fitness and grooming standards.

As it was put to CNN, the “gu

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