Research Note When OK is Not OK: Public Concern About White Nationalism in the U.S. Military Robert Ralston 1,2 , Matthew Motta 3 and Jennifer Spindel 4 Abstract Are Americans aware and concerned about White nationalism in the U.S. Military? Our large and demographically representative survey suggests that while most Americans suspect at least some presence of White nationalism in the military, many do not view it as a serious problem; particularly self-identified conservatives and respondents who hold highly favorable views toward military service members. However, in a between-/ within-subjects experiment embedded in our survey, we show that providing infor- mation about the issue of White nationalism in the U.S. Military increases the public’s overall concern about White nationalism in the U.S. Military. Keywords civil–military relations, White nationalism, public opinion, survey experiment In late December 2019, the Republican-led U.S. Senate removed the term “White nationalist” from a measure designed to screen potential military enlistees as part of the vote on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA; M. Johnson, 2019). 1 Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA 2 Albritton Center for Grand Strategy, Texas A&M University, Bryan, TX, USA 3 Department of Political Science, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA 4 Department of International & Area Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA Corresponding Author: Robert Ralston, 1038 Allen Building, 4220 TAMU College Station, TX 77843, USA. Email: ralst047@umn.edu Armed Forces & Society 1-12 ª The Author(s) 2020 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/0095327X20918394 journals.sagepub.com/home/afs