Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced a sweeping move to end Department of War attendance at Ivy League and elite universities that have become hotbeds of “woke indoctrination.”
On Friday, Secretary Hegseth announced that the Department of War is OFFICIALLY CUTTING TIES with the woke Ivy League “elites” who have spent decades poisoning the minds of our nation’s future military leaders.
No longer will American taxpayer dollars be used to subsidize institutions that hate the very country our soldiers swear to defend.
“For too long, the Ivy League and similar institutions have been subjecting our warriors to woke indoctrination—those days are over,” the secretary wrote on X.
For years, the radical Left has used professional military education to push a “curriculum of contempt.” Hegseth is putting an immediate stop to it.
Starting in the 2026-2027 academic year, the Department of War will cancel all attendance at institutions including Princeton, Columbia, MIT, Brown, and Yale.
That includes graduate fellowships, professional military education courses, and any Pentagon subsidies that send uniformed officers into programs that do not align with national security priorities.
Hegseth was crystal clear: The mission of the military is to FIGHT AND WIN WARS, not to master “globalist submission” or “social justice activism.”
The decision extends beyond Ivy League campuses. Hegseth has also ordered a top-to-bottom review of all military war colleges and internal Department of War education programs to ensure they refocus on strategic thought, combat readiness, and the foundational principles of the Republic.
Pete Hegseth:
“There should exist a sacred trust between America’s institutions and our warriors. It should be a trust that demands we develop our finest military leaders with the highest standards so that they are equipped to fight and win our nation’s wars with absolute lethality—from basic training to the halls of higher education.
That said, our senior service colleges have always been expected to act in the interests of this principle: to transform our senior warfighters into strategic thinkers—soldiers capable of mastering the complexities of modern warfare and leading our joint force to victory at every echelon.
Unfortunately, this sacred trust has been broken in this military’s professional military education system. It’s been poisoned from within by a class of so-called elite universities who’ve abused their privilege and access to this department and utterly betrayed their purpose.
For decades, the Ivy League and similar institutions have gorged themselves on a trust fund of American taxpayer dollars, only to become factories of anti-American resentment and military disdain.
They’ve taken our best and brightest—the men and women who pledge their lives to this nation—and subjected them to a curriculum of contempt. They’ve replaced the study of victory and pragmatic realism with the promotion of wokeness and weakness.
They’ve traded true intellectual rigor for radical dogma, sacrificing free expression for the suffocating confines of leftist ideology.
What is the purpose, you may ask, of investing in an education that teaches our warriors to despise the very nation they swore to defend? What’s the value of a degree that seeks to hollow out their warrior ethos and replace it with a creed of globalist submission?
The answer is simple: there is none.
Let’s be brutally honest about how we define our terms here. This is not education; it’s indoctrination. It’s a calculated, targeted assault on the core of our fighting force, and it is a betrayal that we will no longer tolerate.
The Department of War is finished subsidizing the corruption of our own uniformed class. We’re done paying for the privilege of having our enemies’ wicked ideologies taught to our future leaders.
We’ve had enough. We demand that senior service colleges work to sharpen our warfighters on genuine national security issues—not social justice activism.
We demand curriculums grounded in the founding principles of this Republic—principles that champion the enduring ideals of peace through strength and putting American interests first. We demand universities that invest back into our nation’s prosperity rather than our greatest adversaries.
It’s common sense. No longer will we sit back and treat these woke breeding grounds of toxic indoctrination as valid centers of so-called intellectual curiosity. We cannot and will not continue to send our most capable officers—senior officers—into graduate programs that undermine the very values they have sworn to uphold.
That’s why today, just like we did with Harvard, I’m ordering the complete and immediate cancellation of all Department of War attendance at institutions like Princeton, Columbia, MIT, Brown, Yale, and many others, starting next academic year—2026–2027.
Furthermore, we’re going to hold ourselves accountable as well. In the coming days, I will direct a formal, 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 warfighters the world has ever known.
As a final message to our warriors: the Ivy League faculty lounges may loathe you. The so-called elite of academia may mock your patriotism and disdain your sacrifice. But never forget that we—the War Department—have your back. The American people have your back. And President Trump has your back, always.”
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For too long, the Ivy League and similar institutions have been subjecting our warriors to woke indoctrination—those days are over. pic.twitter.com/0xMC6BArDd
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) February 27, 2026
The announcement comes on the heels of an earlier decision to sever ties with Harvard University.
Earlier this month, the Department of War said Harvard’s programs no longer met the requirements of professional military education and would be discontinued beginning in the fall of 2026.
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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
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