Link: https://jacobin.com/2026/07/us-military-war-on-terror-neo-nazis

Since the "war on terror", the US Army has been increasingly lax in allowing neo-Nazis and white supremacists to join. It’s allowing them to gain combat experience and lay the basis for a militarized far right.

Wait until you find out about the police!

White supremacists have been recruiting from the military since at least the 60s. The terrorism started in the 80s.

Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, showed off a racist shirt to colleagues in the military in the early 90s, for example.

Kathleen Belew traces it quite well in Bring the War Home.

Returning to a country ripped apart by a war they felt they were not allowed to win, a small group of Vietnam veterans and disgruntled civilians who shared their virulent anti-communism and potent sense of betrayal concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. The command structure of their covert movement gave women a prominent place. They operated with discipline, made tragic headlines in Waco, Ruby Ridge, and Oklahoma City, and are resurgent under President Trump. Based on a decade of deep immersion in previously classified FBI files and on extensive interviews, Bring the War Home tells the story of American paramilitarism and the birth of the alt-right.

Was it ever difficult? I thought they were the bread and butter of the services