Since the launch of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars - now the longest wars in American history - the US military has struggled to recruit troops. It has responded, as Matt Kennard's explosive investigative report makes clear, by opening its doors to neo-Nazis, white supremacists, gang members, the mentally ill, and criminals. Based on years of first-hand research, Irregular Army includes extensive interviews with extremist veterans and leaders of far-right hate groups who spoke openly of their eagerness to have their followers acquire military training for a coming domestic race war. As a report commissioned by the Department of Defense itself put it, 'Effectively, the military has a 'don't ask, don't tell' policy pertaining to extremism.'
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Matt Kennard is a fluent, powerful and authoritative writer whose debut book will surely establish him as one of Britain's best-known investigative journalists. --David Crouch, Financial Times
I have been following Matt Kennard s work for years, with much appreciation. He is a fine journalist and political analyst, acute and perceptive, and his work is based on real insight and understanding over a broad range. --Noam Chomsky
An exceptional author. Matt Kennard never tries to paint a pig pretty. Thanks, Matt, for keeping it ugly. --Hunter Glass, former gang investigator for the US military
I have been following Matt Kennard s work for years, with much appreciation. He is a fine journalist and political analyst, acute and perceptive, and his work is based on real insight and understanding over a broad range. --Noam Chomsky
An exceptional author. Matt Kennard never tries to paint a pig pretty. Thanks, Matt, for keeping it ugly. --Hunter Glass, former gang investigator for the US military
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MATT KENNARD is a journalist based in London. He has worked for the Financial Times in Washington, New York, and London, and has written for Salon, the Chicago Tribune, and the Guardian. He graduated as a Stabile Investigative Fellow from the Columbia Journalism School.
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By Madison
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I really enjoyed this book. It's a shocking expose of the dirty tricks our leaders play while engaging our soliders in war and a great history of the US War on Terror. It's really well researched, and gives an inside view into the desperate measures the US government took to fill its dwindling army and the scary reality we are now living in as neo-nazis, gang members, felons and those struggling with severe mental health problems come home to the US after having received military training and experience. It's well written and full of revelations about the dirty realities of the wars of the 21st century. I recommend this book to all those with an interest in the wars that our governments carry out in our name.
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A one-of-A Kind Military book.
22 Feb 2013
By dave
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This book is a very intresting one-of a-Kind Military book.
The K.K.K. and other hate groups for years have had Members in the MIlitary,
Wich is a Shame.I hope The Pentagon and MPS ect. Combat this problam and eliminate it enventerly in 2013 ect.
Tim mcveigh should be the last of such problem, but isn't I reacently read of 3 soilders from GA, connect
to the American-Neo-Militia Movement on the internetI think this book should be up-dated in a few-years.
I'd like to read more articles about Out-Law biker Gangs in the Military in this book.
I saw a few documentries on cable, about Gangs In the Military.
Thanks Dave Fisherman.-N.Y.
The K.K.K. and other hate groups for years have had Members in the MIlitary,
Wich is a Shame.I hope The Pentagon and MPS ect. Combat this problam and eliminate it enventerly in 2013 ect.
Tim mcveigh should be the last of such problem, but isn't I reacently read of 3 soilders from GA, connect
to the American-Neo-Militia Movement on the internetI think this book should be up-dated in a few-years.
I'd like to read more articles about Out-Law biker Gangs in the Military in this book.
I saw a few documentries on cable, about Gangs In the Military.
Thanks Dave Fisherman.-N.Y.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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More of a snack than food for thought
10 Feb 2013
By Steve Reina
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Format:Hardcover
With last fall's Sikh Temple shooting in Oak Creek Wisconsin, Americans were given some additional cause for alarm about their nation's military.
The reason for that is the shooting was done by Wade Michael Page formerly of the United States military. Sadly it was also learned that Page was a Neo Nazi.
Based on mostly interviews but also some other reports and research journalist Matt Kenard has attempted to tell a very large story, just how neo Nazis like Page were able to get into the military.
As it turns out neo Nazi infilitration into the military -- according to Kennard -- is part of a larger story of what happened when the US military was forced to lower recruiting standards in maintaining troop numbers for the war on terror.
Again according to Page, lower recruiting standards have not only opened the military's enlistment rolls to neo Nazis but also gang members, those with criminal records (that were previously deemed a basis for denying enlistment), those with mental problems, those with physical issues like being overweight, individuals with lower IQs and also foreign nationals who are offered citizenship in exchange for military service.
At a scant 222 pages it would be a challenge for Page to fully develop any of these topics. However, tackling all of them is a gargantuan task and because of the limits of space in this book readers are often left with significant questions as Kennard attempts to support his thesis on one point, before he goes on to start arguing yet another point.
This is one of those books that probably should best be a part of one's investigation into the issues raised by Kennard. However it is an investigation worth doing because it only takes one Wade Page to cause great misery.
The reason for that is the shooting was done by Wade Michael Page formerly of the United States military. Sadly it was also learned that Page was a Neo Nazi.
Based on mostly interviews but also some other reports and research journalist Matt Kenard has attempted to tell a very large story, just how neo Nazis like Page were able to get into the military.
As it turns out neo Nazi infilitration into the military -- according to Kennard -- is part of a larger story of what happened when the US military was forced to lower recruiting standards in maintaining troop numbers for the war on terror.
Again according to Page, lower recruiting standards have not only opened the military's enlistment rolls to neo Nazis but also gang members, those with criminal records (that were previously deemed a basis for denying enlistment), those with mental problems, those with physical issues like being overweight, individuals with lower IQs and also foreign nationals who are offered citizenship in exchange for military service.
At a scant 222 pages it would be a challenge for Page to fully develop any of these topics. However, tackling all of them is a gargantuan task and because of the limits of space in this book readers are often left with significant questions as Kennard attempts to support his thesis on one point, before he goes on to start arguing yet another point.
This is one of those books that probably should best be a part of one's investigation into the issues raised by Kennard. However it is an investigation worth doing because it only takes one Wade Page to cause great misery.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Great book!
9 Jan 2013
By Booker K
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Format:Hardcover
Very interesting book, I heartily recommend it!
You will get to read about aspect of military that no one discusses about.
You will get to read about aspect of military that no one discusses about.
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