© Kevin Wolf/AP PhotoDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth leads an oath of enlistment ceremony, Friday 6, 2026 • Washington Monument • Washington DC
The announcement marks the latest development in the Trump administration's prolonged standoff with Harvard over the White House's demands for reforms at the Ivy League school.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a statement Friday that Harvard "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. 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. Similar programs at other Ivy League universities will be evaluated in coming weeks."Starting with the 2026-27 academic year, the Pentagon will discontinue graduate-level professional military education, fellowships and certificate programs, the statement said. Personnel currently attending classes at Harvard will be able to finish those courses.
In a separate post on X, Hegseth wrote: "Harvard is woke; The War Department is not."
© Steven Senne/AP/FilePhotos taken near a John Harvard statue • Harvard University Campus • January 2 2024 • Cambridge, Mass
The military offers its officers a variety of opportunities to get graduate-level education both at war colleges run by the military as well as civilian institutions like Harvard.
Broadly, while opportunities to attend prestigious civilian schools offer less direct benefit to a servicemember's military career than their civilian counterparts, they help make troops more attractive employees once they leave the military.
Harvard has long been President Donald Trump's top target in his administration's campaign to bring the nation's most prestigious universities to heel. His officials have cut billions of dollars in Harvard's federal research funding and attempted to block it from enrolling foreign students after the campus rebuffed a series of government demands last April.
The White House has said it's punishing Harvard for tolerating anti-Jewish bias on campus. Harvard leaders argue they're facing illegal retaliation for failing to adopt the administration's ideological views. Harvard sued the administration in a pair of lawsuits. A federal judge issued orders siding with Harvard in both cases. The administration is appealing.
Tensions had eased over the summer as Trump teased a deal that he said was just days away. It never materialized and on Monday the president dug deeper, demanding $1 billion from Harvard as part of any deal to restore federal funding. That's twice what he had demanded before.
Quote: " Harvard has long been President Donald Trump's top target in his administration's campaign to bring the nation's most prestigious universities to heel,"
Remember, this is the "Ivy league" where Charles LIeber a bio-nanotech scientist was paid under the table by China to create a nanotech lab in Wuhan . Before that, there was the Lancet " scientific article and peer-reviewed ", Brave AI: " The Lancet article titled "Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis" was published on May 22, 2020, and subsequently retracted on June 4, 2020 ." Why was it withdrawn? Fake data.
Then, Brave AI: " Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned on January 2, 2024, amid allegations of plagiarism in her academic writing. The resignation followed weeks of mounting pressure after investigations by media outlets uncovered nearly 50 instances of alleged plagiarism in her scholarly work, including her 1997 doctoral dissertation and several peer-reviewed papers."
Harvard is not only a bastion of Woke garbage; it has sunk to low standards of corruption.