> ...while military personnel and veterans are not more likely to radicalize to the point of violence than members of the general public, when service members and veterans do become radicalized, “they may be more likely to plan for, or commit, mass casualty crimes...
This makes a lot of sense. First, it explains the discrepancy between studies that have found no evidence of an extremist problem among service members, and studies that have, which is nice. Second, it's like saying that "while tech workers are not more likely to radicalize to the point of committing crimes than members of the general public, when tech workers do become radicalized they may be more likely to plan for, or commit, computer crimes." Of course. If you've voluntarily trained for military operations (i.e. high stakes managed violence), this is what you know and are more able to do than the average person. You can see other things too like the high suicide rate among military service members which, adjusted for demographics, because the military skews so male and young, is actually not consistently higher than the general population.
> Fort Liberty is, however, an exceptionally troubled Army base.
I think this is dumb. Liberty (the fort "formerly known as Bragg") is just the most populous Army base, arguably tied with the equally "troubled" Cavazos (formerly Hood).
> ...while military personnel and veterans are not more likely to radicalize to the point of violence than members of the general public, when service members and veterans do become radicalized, “they may be more likely to plan for, or commit, mass casualty crimes...
This makes a lot of sense. First, it explains the discrepancy between studies that have found no evidence of an extremist problem among service members, and studies that have, which is nice. Second, it's like saying that "while tech workers are not more likely to radicalize to the point of committing crimes than members of the general public, when tech workers do become radicalized they may be more likely to plan for, or commit, computer crimes." Of course. If you've voluntarily trained for military operations (i.e. high stakes managed violence), this is what you know and are more able to do than the average person. You can see other things too like the high suicide rate among military service members which, adjusted for demographics, because the military skews so male and young, is actually not consistently higher than the general population.
> Fort Liberty is, however, an exceptionally troubled Army base.
I think this is dumb. Liberty (the fort "formerly known as Bragg") is just the most populous Army base, arguably tied with the equally "troubled" Cavazos (formerly Hood).