The Academic Cold War: Pentagon's Crackdown on Foreign Partnerships The latest salvo in the ongoing battle between the US government and its universities over foreign partnerships has been fired.
Thirty institutions, including some of America's most prestigious ones – Harvard, MIT, Johns Hopkins, and Cornell among them – have received an ultimatum from the Pentagon to review and sever ties deemed problematic.
At first glance, this move appears to be a straightforward effort to protect national security by policing taxpayer funded research and preventing intellectual property theft.