“Two years after the Defense Department formed a working group to investigate cases of extremism within the ranks of the U.S. armed forces, the Pentagon has barely moved to implement its recommendations…
CNN reports that the Pentagon has only enacted one of the Countering Extremism Working Group’s six recommended measures on fighting extremism, which the DoD defines as, among other things, participation in or pushing for violence against people of other races, genders or national origins…
CNN also found that the Pentagon continues to struggle with its definition of “extremist activities.” At the time of the working group’s establishment, there was no clear department-wide understanding of what constitutes that. One was created since spring 2021, but has done little to weed out extremists, per those CNN talked to.”