Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of defense, the former Army National Guard major and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, has no clear policy or management experience that qualifies him to run the Pentagon.

Pete Hegseth, the Fox News host picked by Trump for the Pentagon, is a combat veteran himself. In an interview on a podcast several weeks ago, Hegseth claimed that allowing women to serve in combat roles — like Duckworth — was not providing any benefits to the armed services and argued it was making warfare more “complicated.”