President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared an end to woke culture in the military and targeted other policies of past administrations Tuesday before hundreds of top U.S. military officials who were abruptly summoned to Virginia from around the world.

Hegseth announced new directives for troops that include gender-neutral or male-level standards for physical fitness, while Trump bragged about U.S. nuclear capabilities and said the nation's dangerous cities should be used as "training grounds for our military.

Hegseth had called military leaders to convene at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, near Washington, without publicly revealing the reason until Tuesday morning. Hegseths address largely focused on his own long-used talking points that painted a picture of a

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