Democratic Senator Mark Kelly said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s approach to bombing Iran “wasn’t to accomplish a strategic goal” and has made the U.S. “less safe” by depleting munitions stockpiles.
“He seemed to me to be focused on, you know, how much stuff can we blow up,” Kelly said on the On NOTUS podcast. “Usually you would do that to kind of shape the battlefield for something else. … They did this just to set records, in my view.”
The comments came after Hegseth told Kelly at a recent Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that it could take “months and years” to replenish stockpiles for key munitions.