{"id":772063,"date":"2026-07-19T12:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T12:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/772063\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T12:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T12:57:24","slug":"opinion-should-elite-universities-and-the-military-should-be-friends-or-foes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/772063\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Should elite universities and the military should be friends or foes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QGJQDYEK75CK3GF2MJ4RFF5MYU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">When Montague, an active-duty Army brigadier general, argued that elite universities and the military \u201cshould be friends, not foes,\u201d he counter-signaled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth\u2019s deliberate policy to align national security fellowships and military-academic partnerships with the principles of merit, cohesion and warfighting effectiveness rather than divisive diversity, equity and inclusion frameworks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Montague, an active-duty Army brigadier general, argued that elite universities and the military \u201cshould be friends, not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-772063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}