How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members and Criminals: IRREGULAR ARMY
Posted by Novara Media on June 12, 2026
"For me, as someone who spent years investigating far-right extremism within the US military for my book Irregular Army: How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals, these revelations felt like a story coming full circle. Tattoos had always been one of the most visible markers of political ideology. During the war on terror, I had documented countless cases where soldiers had displayed extremist symbols – Norse runes, swastikas, neo-Crusader imagery – with impunity."