“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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      9 hours ago

      Harvard isn’t where the smart people go to become smarter. It’s where the rich kids go to network and socially reproduce their capitalist values system.

      The decision by the Pentagon is a political realignment. No doubt they’ll start recruiting more heavily from Texas, Florida, Stanford and the Trump aligned tech sector.