White supremacist groups like Atomwaffen, which also goes by the name “National Socialist Order,” are looking to recruit U.S. military members to help carry out terrorist attacks against minorities, according to experts speaking to Military.com. In its annual 2023 threat assessment released in March, the U.S. intelligence declared that racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism is the “most lethal threat to Americans.” It highlighted groups that believe “recruiting military members will help them organize cells for attacks against minorities or institutions that oppose their ideology.” “New extremist organizations such as Atomwaffen, the Boogaloo movement and the Base, a neo-Nazi group, have picked up where the anti-government militias of the ’80s and ’90s left off,” the report said. “They seek a violent overthrow of the government or a civil war so they can recreate society, usually into a white supremacist or fascist state. The accelerationist groups — the term denotes that they wish to bring about that civil war swiftly — have sprung up in the aftermath of the Unite the Right extremist group gathering and protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. The event was the largest gathering of white supremacists in recent memory, and many of the torch-bearing participants were young men.” But the fallout from Charlottesville — which resulted in a young leftist protester getting killed — sent the white supremacist movement into disarray. Rick Eaton, a senior researcher and the head of the digital terrorism and hate research team at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said event caused radicals to look elsewhere towards “more active and dangerous paths, such as we’ve seen in the Hard Reset.”
via rawstory: White supremacist groups aim to recruit US Military members to attack minorities: report