Pentagon says it's cutting ties with "woke" Harvard, discontinuing military training and fellowships
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The Pentagon said Friday it is cutting ties with Harvard University, ending all military training, fellowships and certificate programs with the Ivy League institution. In:
The Pentagon said Friday it is cutting ties with Harvard University, ending all military training, fellowships and certificate programs with the Ivy League institution.
The announcement marks the latest development in the Trump administration's prolonged standoff with Harvard over the White House's demands for reforms.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a statement Friday that Harvard "no longer meets the needs of the War Department or the military services," using the administration's preferred term for the Department of Defense.
"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," Hegseth said. "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."
In a separate post on X, Hegseth wrote, "Harvard is woke; The War Department is not."
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