A new book 'Irregular Army: How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror' and a short article by the author that opens with:From this viewpoint I would not base a book on:A lax recruitment policy has allowed neo-Nazi and other extremists to enter the United States army. The violent consequences are increasingly being felt in the domestic arena, says Matt Kennard.Nor does citing the example of the Wisconsin Sikh temple murderer, Wade Michael Page as a 'neo-Nazi army veteran' when he left the army in 1998 and in 2012 committed the murders.What is certain, however, is that the impunity afforded to violent neo-Nazis and white supremacists by the US military hit a new high during the “war on terror”... includes extensive interviews with neo-Nazi veterans as well and leaders of the far-right movement, all of whom reported ...that the US military was basically running an open-door policy on far-right radicals during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. An internal Pentagon report I dug up noted that by 2005, “The military [had] a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy pertaining to extremism.”
Hopefully there is more "beef" in the book.
Link to article:http://www.opendemocracy.net/matt-ke...r-right-threat and to the book's website:http://www.versobooks.com/books/1111-irregular-army
I read this week a reference in a FBI report on gangs a section on their presence in the US military and occasionally the issue of extremism appears in the UK military.
There is a critical review of the book here:http://www.amazon.com/Irregular-Army...s=matt+kennard
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