{"id":19139,"date":"2026-02-19T10:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hegseth-takes-military-culture-war-to-civilian-universities\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:22:19","slug":"hegseth-takes-military-culture-war-to-civilian-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hegseth-takes-military-culture-war-to-civilian-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth takes military culture war to civilian universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Blue Light News&#8217;s Defense &amp; NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &amp;National Security Defense &amp;National Security &#8202; The Big Story  Hegseth takes military culture war to civilian universities Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expanding his culture war into academia, threatening to pull service members&rsquo; tuition assistance at potentially dozens of top colleges and universities he views&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/newsletters\/defense-national-security\/5744619-hegseth-takes-military-culture-war-to-civilian-universities\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Blue Light News&#8217;s Defense &amp; NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &amp;National Security Defense &amp;National Security &#8202; The Big Story Hegseth takes military culture war to civilian universities Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expanding his culture war into academia, threatening to pull service members&rsquo; tuition assistance at potentially dozens of top colleges and universities he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}