TY - BOOK AU - Belew,Kathleen TI - Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America SN - 9780674984943 PY - 2018///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - Paramilitary forces KW - United States KW - History KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 KW - Veterans KW - White supremacy movements KW - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century KW - bisacsh KW - Aryan Nations KW - Greensboro shooting KW - Ku Klux Klan KW - Louis Beam KW - Oklahoma City bombing KW - Richard Butler KW - Ruby Ridge KW - Timothy McVeigh KW - Vietnam War KW - Waco KW - anticommunism KW - domestic terrorism KW - leaderless resistance KW - mercenaries KW - militia movement KW - paramilitarism KW - racism KW - separatism KW - the Order KW - white power movement KW - white supremacy KW - white women N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Note to Readers --; Introduction --; PART I. FORMATION --; 1. The Vietnam War Story --; 2. Building the Underground --; 3. A Unified Movement --; 4. Mercenaries and Paramilitary Praxis --; PART II. THE WAR COMES HOME --; 5. The Revolutionary Turn --; 6. Weapons of War --; 7. Race War and White Women --; PART III. APOCALYPSE --; 8. Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Militarized Policing --; 9. The Bombing of Oklahoma City --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Sources --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access N2 - The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out—with military precision—an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview of white supremacy, anticommunism, and apocalypse. In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the first full history of the movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building. Returning to an America ripped apart by a war that, in their view, they were not allowed to win, a small but driven group of veterans, active-duty personnel, and civilian supporters concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. They unified people from a variety of militant groups, including Klansmen, neo-Nazis, skinheads, radical tax protestors, and white separatists. The white power movement operated with discipline and clarity, undertaking assassinations, mercenary soldiering, armed robbery, counterfeiting, and weapons trafficking. Its command structure gave women a prominent place in brokering intergroup alliances and giving birth to future recruits. Belew’s disturbing history reveals how war cannot be contained in time and space. In its wake, grievances intensify and violence becomes a logical course of action for some. Bring the War Home argues for awareness of the heightened potential for paramilitarism in a present defined by ongoing war UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674984943 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674984943 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674984943.jpg ER -