The War on Warriors uncovers the deep roots of our dysfunction—a society that has forgotten the men who take risks, cut through red tape, and get their hands dirty. The only kind of men prepared ...

The moment that Pete Hegseth’s life changed forever came in Iraq at a base named for two U.S. soldiers killed in a mortar attack. It was March 2006, and the war was going badly for the Americans.

He continued this rhetoric in his The War on Warriors book tour last year. “We should change it back by the way,” he said of North Carolina’s Fort Liberty—which used to be Fort Bragg—on ...