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On Friday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared an “immediate and total cessation” of Department of War personnel attending institutions such as Princeton, Columbia, MIT, Brown, and Yale, set to take effect in the 2026-27 academic year.
Hegseth mentioned that this prohibition would also extend to “numerous other institutions,” arguing that the higher education sector has been “corrupted from the inside by a group of so-called elite universities that have squandered their privileges and betrayed their mission.”
This announcement follows Hegseth’s earlier decision this month to prevent active-duty service members from enrolling at Harvard starting next year.
He criticized these universities for consuming “American taxpayer funds for decades, only to transform into hubs of anti-American sentiment and disdain for the military.”
Hegseth further contended that these institutions have shifted from “focusing on victory and practical realism to embracing wokeness and vulnerability.”
“This is not education, this is indoctrination,” he added.
“The Department of War is finished subsidizing the corruption of our own in uniform class,” he said. “We’re done paying for the privilege of our enemies’ wicked ideologies to be taught to our future leaders. We’ve had enough.”
“We cannot and will not send our most capable officers, senior officers, into graduate programs that undermine the very values they have sworn to uphold.”
Hegseth added that the department would also hold itself accountable, starting with a top-to-bottom review of “our own internal war colleges, ensuring they are once again bastions of strategic thought, wholly dedicated to the singular mission of developing the most lethal and effective leaders and war fighters the world has ever known.”