Thomas W. Chittum is an American author, military analyst and former

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from New Jersey, now living in Washington state.Lee, Martin A. (January 14, 2001
"No trespassing in the land of the free; Demographics: A backlash against nonwhite immigrants is likely to get worse as the economy weakens" ''Baltimore Sun
'' He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. Chittum also fought in the Rhodesian War and the Croatian War of Independence as a mercenary.

Biography

Chittum was born in New Jersey on February 28, 1947, to Mr. and Mrs. James R. Chittum. His father worked as a tool designer for Caterpillar Tractor Co. Chittum joined the army and trained as a paratrooper with the 173rd Army Brigade. He was originally stationed in

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, but was sent to Vietnam where he served from 1965 until 1966. He was involved in numerous fire fights, including a battle in which his patrol killed a

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recruiter who had connections to China. Chittum was also involved in an operation in which he raided an abandoned Viet Cong base which contained propaganda leaflet which were connected to the Youth Against War and Fascism. After his time in the army, Chittum briefly served in the Rhodesian Army in the early 1970s during the Bush War, where he spent several months on patrols along the border with

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. From 1991 until 1992, Chittum fought with the Croatian Army in Croatia's

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. He first served in a recon unit made up of mostly Dutch mercenaries. He then served in a mortar unit made up of British and regular Croatian soldiers. His time in Croatia was mostly spent in trenches avoiding attacks from Serbian mortars, tanks, heavy machine guns and jets. Both sides relied on trench warfare and Chittum noted that one of the British mercenaries he served with once said "It was a war fought with 1970s technology and 1914 tactics." Chittum spent most of his adult life working as a computer programmer.

Theories

Chittum predicts that the United States will soon face Balkanization and a second

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based on racial conflicts. He plans to move to upstate New York because it would likely still be a

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-controlled area after the American Southwest effectively becomes part of

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by 2020 due to immigration. Chittum was a speaker at the First Annual Conference on Racial Separatism in 1998, which also featured

Jared Taylor Samuel Jared Taylor (born September 15, 1951) is an American white supremacist and editor of ''American Renaissance'', an online magazine espousing such opinions, which was founded by Taylor in 1990. He is also the president of ''American Ren ...

, Robert Brock, and Don Black. Those at the conference speculated about looming world and race wars. The now deceased

Willis Carto Willis Allison Carto (July 17, 1926 – October 26, 2015) was an American far-right political activist. He described himself as a Jeffersonian and a populist, but was primarily known for his promotion of antisemitic conspiracy theories and ...

suggested that the United States use funds that he said would otherwise go to

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to re-settle African-Americans in Africa, and Brock stated that Carto's plan would lead to Africa putting a man on the moon within three years. Brock also advanced the claim that both black and white nationalists needed to be racists in order to keep their identities intact."Ken P." (October 1998
"Minutes of the First Annual Conference on Racial Separatism
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Works

* ''Sgt Skull's Field Manual for the Practical Modern Warrior'', 2006 * ''Civil War Two: The Coming Breakup of America'' Tucson, Arizona: American Eagle Publications (1997, updated 2007) * ''The White Duds: The Real Life Teenage Dirty Dozen in Vietnam'' (2017)

References

External links

Author profile and articles archive
- America First Books {{DEFAULTSORT:Chittum 1947 births Living people American mercenaries United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War United States Army soldiers Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces American expatriates in Rhodesia