“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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      They have plans to send their Christian warrior class of fanatics out to conquer the Americas.

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        I’d be thrilled to get rid of them but couldn’t in good conscience send them somewhere else. We need to clean up our own messes like grownups.

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        Those idiots. If B5 taught me anything it’s that the religious caste and the warrior caste should be different people.

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      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.

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    this department has sent our best and brightest officers to Harvard, hoping the university would better understand and appreciate our warrior class,

    That’s, uh, not why DoD occasionally sends officers to Harvard and other elite universities. DoD does this because they want some of their officers to have high quality advanced degrees.

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    An elite university, full of woke people. If being woke makes you smarter, maybe its why Hegseth is so insecure.

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    As much as Harvard perpetuates some pretty terrible aspects of american culture, it’s still top tier on eduction.

    Way to take an arrow to the knee Hegseth.

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      it’s still top tier on eduction

      It’s not.

      Harvard is a business school instrumental in networking between wealthy families.

      The education they provide can be found at any state school.

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    considering brown and rainbow people as “equals” is now “globalist and radical ideologies”

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    Adding to my somewhat short list of good things Trump did (I consider a dumber officer corps for the American war machine a good thing).