Friday, April 24, 2026

Pentagon Cancels Think Tank Senior Service College Fellowships

The Department of War announced in a Feb. 27 memo that it is canceling Senior Service College (SSC) fellowships at a number of universities and think tanks, in what Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says is a campaign against anti-American values and "wokeness."

Fellowships will be cancelled at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), New America, Brookings Institution, Atlantic Council, Center for a New American Security (CNAS), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and Stimson Center.

The memo said that potential new partner institutions include the Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies, the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, and the Africa Center for Strategic Studies