Laugh till you cry wrote on Apr 19
th, 2014 at 3:36pm:
“…military experience is found throughout the white supremacist extremist movement as the result of recruitment campaigns by extremist groups and self-recruitment by veterans sympathetic to white supremacist causes...”
It wouldn't be that surprising if there were.
The Israeli military is constantly beset by ultra-orthodox rabbis attempting to persuade Israeli military personnel to assume an ultra-orthodox mindset towards the state of Israel (although, the ultra-orthodox do not approve of their own sons - and definitely not their daughters - joining the military, I believe).
The same could be said of right-wing Christian sects that tout US military personnel as holy warriors - literally soldiers in the army of the lord.
And, of course, Islamists, are doing the same within their own military forces.
Even Buddhist monks (in places like Sri Lanka) were not averse to spruiking an extremist line with their military personnel.
Religious 'zealots' and extremist idealists, it appears, see a direct link with military power and 'righteous' religious/idealistic chauvinism... The oaths and duties of a soldier seem to resonate in the religious/idealist mind as identical with the oaths and duties of their respective observances.