Bring the War Home by Kathleen Belew currently. It covers the radicalization of soldiers in the Vietnam war and how that contributed to the militarization of the white power movement in the US.
Yeah it's pretty straight forward. Vietnam taught these people to be militantly anti-communist and weaponized preexisting racist tendencies to dehumanize their enemies, it starts off there and then describes how that was brought home and grew on its own while being allowed to flourish as a defense mechanism against leftist movements.
Bring the War Home by Kathleen Belew currently. It covers the radicalization of soldiers in the Vietnam war and how that contributed to the militarization of the white power movement in the US.
Is it an easy read?
Yeah it's pretty straight forward. Vietnam taught these people to be militantly anti-communist and weaponized preexisting racist tendencies to dehumanize their enemies, it starts off there and then describes how that was brought home and grew on its own while being allowed to flourish as a defense mechanism against leftist movements.