National Guard Prepares Quick Reaction Forces

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A leaked October 8 memo from Pentagon operations director Major General Ronald Burkett directs the National Guard Bureau in all 50 states and U.S. territories to stand up 500-strong “quick reaction forces” for riot control—totaling some 23,500 troops—following an August order by Donald Trump to bolster domestic response units.

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Heather Cox Richardson is a political historian who uses facts and history to make observations about contemporary American politics. She has written about the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and the American West in award-winning books whose subjects stretch from the European settlement of the North American continent to the history of the Republican Party through the Trump administration. She is the author, most recently, of the best-selling Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America.