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Hegseth defends strike on drug-boat survivors, touts Trump's Reagan-style defense policies

President Trump is the true heir to Ronald Reagan when it comes to championing the former president's policy of "peace through strength," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Saturday. Mr. Hegseth, in a major speech to the Reagan National Defense Forum, also defended the Trump administration's deadly missile strikes on alleged drug-trafficking vessels, including a controversial secondary attack Sept. 2 that Mr. Hegseth said killed two "narco-terrorists."