Zoltan Grossman
Although the National Guard has
often been used against civil rebellion, deploying federal military forces
within the U.S. is a drastic and historically rare move. I’ve studied the
history and geography of U.S. military interventions from the “Indian Wars” to
the Middle East, and have documented only a handful of times that Army,
Marines, or federalized National Guard forces have been used against U.S.
citizens over the past century. For Trump to take such a profound leap is an
admission that a conflict at home is being equated to an overseas war. Sending
in soldiers trained for combat will only make a bad situation worse, by
launching a war at home against domestic dissent.
