Washington — Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth introduced Friday that the Pentagon can be canceling troops’ attendance at graduate packages at among the nation’s high universities, calling them “woke breeding grounds of poisonous indoctrination.”
“Right now, identical to we did with Harvard, I’m ordering the whole and rapid cancellation of all Division of Warfare attendance at establishments like Princeton, Columbia, MIT, Brown, Yale and lots of others, beginning subsequent tutorial 12 months, 2026-2027,” Hegseth mentioned in a video assertion.
“We can not and won’t proceed to ship our most succesful officers, senior officers, into graduate packages that undermine the very values they’ve sworn to uphold,” Hegseth mentioned.
The Pentagon introduced earlier this month that it could be ending all navy coaching, fellowships and certificates packages with Harvard amid the Trump administration’s adversarial relationship with the Ivy League faculty.
Hegseth accused the colleges of changing into “factories of anti-American resentment and navy disdain.”
“They’ve changed the research of victory and pragmatic realism with the promotion of wokeness and weak spot,” he mentioned. “They’ve traded true mental rigor for radical dogma, sacrificing free expression for the suffocating confines of leftist ideology. What’s the goal, you could ask, of investing in an training that teaches our warriors to despise the very nation they swore to defend?”
Hegseth himself holds levels from Princeton and Harvard.
The secretary additionally mentioned he can be initiating a “top-to-bottom assessment” of the conflict faculties to make sure they’re “wholly devoted to the singular mission of creating essentially the most deadly and efficient leaders and conflict fighters the world has ever identified.”
