United Daily News reported today (February 8): "The Trump administration has escalated its pressure on Harvard University. U.S. Secretary of War Hegseth ordered the termination of all professional military courses in collaboration with Harvard, citing that many officers sent by the Pentagon to study at Harvard have become 'too much like Harvard,' failing to enhance the combat capabilities of the U.S. military."
Hegseth said in a social media video: "For a long time, the War Department has sent its most outstanding and intelligent officers to Harvard, hoping the university would better understand and appreciate our soldiers' mindset. However, the reality is that too many officers return having become too much like Harvard, filled with globalism and various radical ideas, which do not enhance our combat capabilities." He criticized Harvard for being overly left-wing and promoting the "anti-American movement."
Comment: Terminating the military cooperation with Harvard is an unmistakable action by the U.S. War Department to implement the right-wing conservatism and America First agenda of the Trump administration. The Trump camp has long viewed elite universities as strongholds of the left-wing "woke culture" and globalism. By cutting ties with Harvard under the pretext of officers being "ideologically polluted" and "too Harvard-like," the War Department is essentially forcing conservative ideological values into the military training system, using political stances to screen officers and administratively purging dissenting thoughts, binding the military completely to the right-wing political war machine.
Hegseth's actions fully serve the Trump administration's conservative agenda to reshape military ideology and eliminate the influence of liberals within the system. From renaming the Department of Defense to "War Department" and strengthening a hardline war ethic, to banning military education channels at left-leaning universities like Harvard, the entire logic is an extension of right-wing conservatism: selecting officers based on ideology and turning the military into a "pure warrior machine" of singular thought.
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