The U.S. Defense Department said on Friday that it is cutting ties with Harvard University, since soldiers studying at the Ivy League school no longer meet the Pentagon’s needs.
“For too long, this department has sent our best and brightest officers to Harvard, hoping the university would better understand and appreciate our warrior class,” stated Pete Hegseth, the U.S. defense secretary.
“Instead, too many of our officers came back looking too much like Harvard—heads full of globalist and radical ideologies that do not improve our fighting ranks,” he stated.
Starting this fall, the Pentagon—which U.S. President Donald Trump refers to as the War Department—will “discontinue graduate-level professional military education, fellowships and certificate programs at the school,” the department said. It added that those who are already studying at the school can finish their courses.
“Campus research programs have partnered with the Chinese Communist Party,” Hegseth stated. “And university leadership encouraged a campus environment that celebrated Hamas, allowed attacks on Jews and still promotes discrimination based on race in violation of Supreme Court decisions.”
He added that the Pentagon will evaluate its graduate programs with active-duty service members at “all Ivy League universities and other civilian universities.”
“The goal is to determine whether or not they actually deliver cost-effective strategic education for future senior leaders when compared to, say, public universities and our military graduate programs,” and the Pentagon will no longer spend “billions of dollars on expensive universities that actively undercut our mission and undercut our country,” he said.
