Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just dropped a huge announcement: the Pentagon is officially cutting all academic ties with Harvard University. It’s the latest flash point in the Trump administration’s long-running feud with the nation’s oldest university. The Defense Secretary made it clear that he believes Harvard is no longer the right place to develop effective military personnel.
In a statement released on Friday, Hegseth lamented that the department has mistakenly been sending its “best and brightest officers” to Harvard, hoping the institution would gain a better appreciation for the military’s “warrior class.” However, he believes the opposite is true. He said that too many officers came back “looking too much like Harvard,” which he defined as having “heads full of globalist and radical ideologies that do not improve our fighting ranks.”
