Vance says US has won almost no wars in recent decades, calls for military culture shift

WASHINGTON, September 3. /TASS/. US Vice President JD Vance has acknowledged that his country has won next to no wars in recent decades.

When asked to comment on the resignation of Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll, which, according to the US media, was prompted by disagreements with Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth, he noted that both are his friends. "Fundamentally, there are a lot of issues where I agree with Pete on. The issue where I'm in the most strident agreement with Pete is that we needed to have a culture shift at the Department of War," he told a briefing.

"America has fought a lot of wars since I've been alive - 42 years - and we have won almost none of them until Donald J. Trump became the president of the United States. What does that say about the culture of military leadership, the way that we did planning? And what does it also say, frankly, about the political leadership that we've had in the White House, at the Department of War, for 40 years of, frankly, military misadventures?" he said, adding that Hegseth is seeking to "revive the warrior spirit in the United States of America." "And I think you see evidence of that happening in a lot of different ways," he added.