"'For too long,' Hegseth said in a video, '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. ... We train warriors, not wokesters. Harvard, good riddance.'"
"The need to broaden the education of America's warriors was first perceived by Gen. George Marshall, the U.S. Army's chief of staff during World War II (hardly an emblem of woke). Marshall relied heavily on the chief of his Strategy and Policy Group, Brig. Gen. George Lincoln. (I delved into his papers at the West Point Archives for Chapter 1 of my 2013 book The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War.)"
Pete Hegseth announced that the Department of Defense will cut ties with Harvard University and possibly other centers of higher learning. The move reflects smug anti-intellectualism and a misunderstanding of why military-academic partnerships were established. The effort to broaden officer education began under Gen. George Marshall and was implemented with key support from Brig. Gen. George Lincoln. Lincoln coordinated major campaigns, helped draft the Yalta and Potsdam treaties, and assisted in creating the Department of Defense. Academic exchanges aimed to strengthen a high-tech military by expanding officers' perspectives rather than producing ideological converts.
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