The Pentagon recently held an event for its staff to discuss the “rise of far-right terrorism” in the United States, according to a report Tuesday. Daily Caller News Foundation.
DCNF revealed that the Department of Defense has launched a new “brown bag event” series featuring both internal and guest speakers. An email invitation obtained by this news organization appeared to invite “all” staff from the Department of Defense’s Office of Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, also known as SO/LIC.
Bruce Hoffman, a Georgetown University professor and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Jacob Ware, a CFR researcher, were invited by the Department of Defense to discuss their book, “God, Guns, and Incitement: The Far Right.” Terrorism in America. ”
“Join us tomorrow morning at 12:00 pm via Teams (link below) for this virtual brown bag book talk event,” the invitation obtained by DCNF reads, “Tomorrow morning at 12:00 pm, join us for this virtual brown bag book talk event with renowned terrorism scholars Dr. Bruce Hoffman and Jacob It was written as “Wear”.
“This is the first in what we hope will be a series of brown bag events featuring internal and external speakers.” “This talk is an outgrowth of the speaker’s new book God, Guns, and Sedition (Columbia University Press), which explores the rise of far-right terrorism in the United States and the implications of domestic terrorism for America’s foreign policy and allies. Discussing the implications. Policy recommendations for countering far-right terrorism.”
The invitation email included information about the book and a link to the author’s bio.
Book description about CFR Website “Recent years have seen shocking acts of terrorism by violent American far-right extremists, including the 2015 mass murder at a historic Black church in Charleston and the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. , these incidents are not new or unprecedented, but they are linked to a vast array of conspiracy theories and extremist ideologies, including white supremacy, racism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and hostility to the government. , the latest flashpoint in a process that has been unfolding for decades and poses a deadly threat to government democracy.”
The recently published book claims to explain “the rise of far-right terrorism in the United States and how to counter it.”inside podcast In an interview in early January, Mr. Hoffman defined and explained “far-right terrorism.”
“One of the challenges we faced in researching this book was that we were not talking about a single hierarchical organization, but a vast movement made up of many different components; Part of the strength of this movement is that it’s been consistent for decades: “We’ve been talking and appealing to an increasingly diverse electorate for a century and a half. There are Ku Klux Klan type people, racists, anti-Semites, xenophobes, anti-LGBTQ, etc.,” Hoffman said. “We’re talking about people who are militantly opposed to paying federal income taxes, who are fervent followers of the Second Amendment, and who believe that the federal government is trying to disarm them. So a lot of different people, conspiracy theorists, extremists, anti-globalists, etc., come together to make up this movement.”
It is unclear who authorized the book discussion event, DCNF reported. The paper noted that domestic terrorism is outside the Department of Defense’s jurisdiction. Neither the Department of Defense nor Mr. Hoffman or Mr. Ware responded to DCNF’s requests for comment on this incident.
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