Compound (fortification)

Insurgent, militant, and terrorist groups alike have been known to maintain their own compounds which commonly feature training camps.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] The CSA, Al-Qaeda, various Ku Klux Klan factions, The Taliban, Aggressive Christianity Missionary Training Corps and ISIS are some of the organizations who use such.[8][9][10][11]

Large outlaw motorcycle clubs will typically use a compound for a particular chapter's headquarters. In motorcycle subculture, these are commonly referred to as "clubhouses".[12][13][14][15][16]

Many new religious movement organizations and cults have used compounds to facilitate their own privatized practices or activities. Additionally, they can serve as a residency for followers of that particular commune. Mount Carmel Center, Tama-Re, YFZ Ranch, and Gold Base are some of the most notable of these.[17][18]

Due to their offensive imagery and paraphernalia, large neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups will operate secluded compounds that can serve as a headquarters for a certain organization. In this particular movement, they are also used to hold gatherings and serve as venues for Nazi punk, Rock Against Communism and White power music concerts.[19][20][21] The most famous of these would be the now-defunct Aryan Nations compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho.[22][23][24]

• Murphy Ranch - a now-defunct compound that belonged to the Silver Legion of America; designed for the group's Nazi activities in the United States during WWII.[25][26][27][28]
• The Knights of the KKK currently operate a compound within Zinc, Arkansas.[29][30][31][32]
• The headquarters of Imperial Klans of America consists of a heavily guarded 28-acre compound in Dawson Springs, Kentucky.[33][34][35][36][37]
• Elohim City
• Camp Nordland
• Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad
• Camp Siegfried

• Stockade
• Boma (enclosure)
• Compound (enclosure)
• Gated community