The U.S. military is under systemic attack by jihadist “influencers” trying to lure them into terror-related activities. Soldiers are not the only targets, but considering that our military contains young, healthy people, trained in weapons use, it makes sense that those wanting to infiltrate and radicalize people would see soldiers as fertile ground for a campaign to undermine American society.

And, to be clear, jihadist subversion is NOT aimed only at Muslims — one of the two former soldiers involved in the terror attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas (both of whom had ties to Ft. Bragg) plus the dual Irish-American arrested on December 20, were not Muslims.

The Department of Defense and the FBI have been reluctant to acknowledge the scope of the problem. To understand how far back it goes, remember “Sudden Jihad Syndrome” (SJS).

In the years after 9/11, the FBI identified SJS in a long list of men accused of terrorist activities, including the Fort Dix Six, the Lackawanna Six, Naveed Afzal Haq, Hesham Hadayet, Derrick Shareef, Sulejman Talovic and others in Portland, Lodi, and Northern Virginia. London, Madrid and Amsterdam were said to have outbreaks of the disease........

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