Trump’s Pentagon pick Hegseth wrote of US military taking sides in ‘civil war’

Defense secretary pick said in 2020 that should Democrats win election the military will be forced to make a choice'

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary, has written in a book that he could imagine a scenario in which the US armed forces would be used violently in American domestic politics.

Hegseth, a former elite soldier turned rightwing Fox television personality, is Trump's choice to lead the Pentagon which controls the gigantic American military - by far the largest armed force in the world.