Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the immediate cancellation of all military attendance at Princeton, Columbia, Yale, Brown, MIT, and a host of other elite universities, the same institutions where a number of his own senior Pentagon appointees earned their degrees.
The announcement, delivered in a video statement posted to X on Feb. 27, 2026, comes three weeks after the Pentagon severed ties with Harvard University and formally extends the ban to a broad range of unnamed institutions.
