Pete Hegseth: The War Department is Cutting Academic Ties With Harvard
“Harvard is woke; The War Department is not.”
So, this is huge news.
In a video posted to Twitter/X yesterday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that his department is severing all academic ties with Harvard University, citing the ongoing issues of wokeness, antisemitism, anti-Americanism, and more.
Anyone who thought the Trump administration’s battle with Harvard was winding down was dead wrong. This is an escalation, and a big one at that.
The U.S. Department of War put out this press release:
War Department Cuts Ties With Harvard University
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth today announced the War Department would sever its academic ties with Harvard University, because attendance at the school no longer meets the needs of the War Department or the military services.
“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,” he 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.”
Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, the War Department will discontinue graduate-level professional military education, fellowships and certificate programs at the school. Hegseth noted that military personnel who are currently attending classes will be able to finish those courses of study.
Hegseth acknowledged the historic relationship the U.S. Military has had with Harvard:
The secretary said the U.S. military has, in the past, had an important and often positive relationship with Harvard.
“In 1775 … Gen. George Washington took command of the Continental Army in Harvard Yard and used the university as a military base,” he said. “From that time, through the Korean War, military service was commonplace at Harvard. There are more recipients of our nation’s Medal of Honor who went to Harvard than any other civilian institution in the United States.”
Today, Hegseth said, Harvard is no longer a welcoming institution to military personnel or the right place to develop them.
The secretary also cited as a problem the relationships Harvard has with foreign powers, and an on-campus culture that is incongruent with military and American values and interests.
“Campus research programs have partnered with the Chinese Communist Party,” he said. “And university leadership encouraged a campus environment that celebrated Hamas, allowed attacks on Jews, and still promotes discrimination based on race in violation of Supreme Court decisions.”
This might not be the end of this escalation. Hegseth says his department will be carefully examining its relationship with all Ivy League schools.
Watch the whole video below:
File this under: LONG OVERDUE
The @DeptWar is formally ending ALL Professional Military Education, fellowships, and certificate programs with Harvard University.
Harvard is woke; The War Department is not. pic.twitter.com/0kpsvivtsQ
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) February 6, 2026
I never thought I’d see something like this in my lifetime, but as Hegseth says in that tweet, it’s long overdue.
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Comments
Good move, but Hahvahd won’t care and the other Ivies probably won’t, either. The military can do quite well without their snobbishness. Although this might get their attention, time will tell if they treat it as a wakeup call. It would be great if they bring their noses down from altitude.
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‘Oh, you have a degree from Harvard earned in the last 25 years, sorry that’s disqualifying. As is your stint on the Faculty or in the administration of Harvard since 9/11. Tough break about being excluded from every Senior Executive Service position much less any appointments or any opportunity to dip your snout in the govt trough.
Done correctly a ‘blackball’ for any CV/resume with Harvard on it would be very effective. Get the rest of the Executive Branch agencies on board and turn time at Harvard into a liability.
It’s about time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now do Stanford. And Yale. And Princeton and ….
They should sever ties with most of the universities. They are all pretty rotten. Well not all but the vast majority of them. It’s unfortunate but true.
Updating the words of the great Cato the Elder: “Universitas Harvardiana delenda est.” (Harvard University must be destroyed). Harvard deserves the fate of Carthage. Only this time salt the earth. Sell the faculty into slavery. (just kidding of course).
On the serious side, Harvard has become a menace to the republic. Some Harvard students have to take math MA5 to compensate for an alleged lack of foundational math skills. While Harvard and tries to put some lipstick on this pig, everyone with any sense understands that Harvard has seriously compromised its standards by admitting the unqualified.
Furthermore, they are replacing AFROTC with FAFOTC.
This move is interesting because Hegseth earned his Master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard. His undergraduate degree is from Princeton.
Also, watch next for a big reduction in DOW federally funded research grants to Harvard.
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