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Hegseth to cut civilians from military service colleges, wants focus on 'victory'
Military Times • • nation
Key Points:
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered an immediate overhaul of higher military service colleges with 33 directives aimed at reforming education and faculty composition.
- The new mandate requires students to demonstrate proficiency in Artificial Intelligence through war games instead of writing lengthy dissertations, and it ends emeritus status and lifetime tenure for new civilian faculty hires.
- Hegseth emphasized that the majority of full-time faculty must have direct military and defense experience, reducing the number of civilians without military backgrounds.
- He criticized current military education for lacking focus on victory and defeat, calling for a shift toward preparing students for lethal, realistic operational challenges and ensuring that victory is the primary goal.
- Hegseth condemned institutional resistance within military academia and stressed that the U.S. must not accept stalemates in war, asserting that Americans expect and deserve decisive victory.
