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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Michelle R. Smith and Jason Dearen

AP finds that a Pentagon-funded study on extremism in the military relied on old data

US--Military Extremism Study - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Defense, sat in front of a screen with the headline: “Study Disproves Military Extremism Problem.”

It was Jan. 4 of this year and Hegseth told a Fox News audience the new study proved that the number of military service members and veterans involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection did not indicate a wider problem in the armed forces. The Pentagon-funded report to which Hegseth referred said there was no evidence the number of violent extremists in the military was “disproportionate to extremists in the general population.”

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