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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) identified 334 militia groups at their peak in 2011. It identified 276 in 2015, up from 202 in 2014. [ 1 ] In 2016, the SPLC identified a total of 165 armed militia groups within the United States.
While members of some such groups believe such militias are approved or endorsed by law, particularly by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, they are in no way public authorities or organized military or National Guard units of the country or their state. They are private citizens, in voluntary association, and self-funded.
American militia movement is a term used by law enforcement and security analysts to refer to a number of private organizations that include paramilitary or similar elements. These groups may refer to themselves as militia , unorganized militia, [ 1 ] and constitutional militia . [ 2 ]
Various unorganized non-governmental Militia organizations in the United States (that are not associated with the U.S. military, law enforcement agencies, nor state defense forces in any way). There are many others totaling at around 334 unorganized militia groups as of 2011 [32] 3 Percenters; Arizona Border Recon; Hutaree; Idaho Light Foot Militia
On social media and private Telegram channels, Proud Boys members are already plotting to support Trump’s agenda with armed militia action, according to new research from the Global Project ...
US Department of Defense, United States Air Force, and a number of private companies: Academi: McLean, VA: Consulting. Formerly known as Blackwater and Xe and it is part of the Constellis Group. American International Security Corp: Woburn, MA: Dissolved Custer Battles: McLean, VA: Iraq and oil sector (at present, have ceased operations in Iraq ...
ICAP, which brought a successful lawsuit on behalf of the city of Charlottesville, Va., against private militia groups that participated in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally, defines ...
Employees of private military company CACI and Titan Corp. were involved in the Iraq Abu Ghraib prison scandal in 2003, and 2004. The US Army "found that contractors were involved in 36 percent of the [Abu Ghraib] proven incidents and identified 6 employees as individually culpable", [46] although none have faced prosecution unlike US military ...