Are US UNIVERSITIES TIED to the DEFENSE DEPARTMENT?

The UK Guardian newspaper published a captivating oped on the control of the US Defense Department over US higher education. This is a debate and discussion that we need to have in light of the polemical debates on the Isreali-Palestinian conflict. Can professors and students at US Universities engage in free and open conversation, or is free speech on US academic campuses controlled?
Join me in a scintillating conversation.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/18/us-universities-are-pipelines-to-the-defense-industry-what-does-that-say-about-our-morals