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Secretary Hegseth Delivers the Keynote Address at the Reagan National Defense Forum, Dec. 6, 2025

December 6, 2025 · Department of War · 0:38:01

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What happened

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivered the keynote address at the 2025 Reagan National Defense Forum on December 6, 2025, according to the Department of War. The department published three uploads of the appearance — this keynote-address upload, a full live feed, and a shorter keynote-conversation upload — the other two are recorded in this site’s index as alternate sources of the same event, not separate pages.

Why it matters

The Reagan Forum keynote is one of the defense establishment’s set-piece annual addresses: the Secretary’s defense agenda stated before the forum’s policy audience, and a benchmark for the department’s subsequent record.

Scoreboard watch

The address is recorded here as the department’s stated account at the time, to be checked against the subsequent record.

Sources: U.S. Department of War, “Secretary of War Pete Hegseth keynote address at the Reagan National Defense Forum,” December 6, 2025 (official upload, embedded above). No transcript is published with the upload; this page records the event as the department published it.