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On June 1, 2020, in Washington, D.C., federal law enforcement deployed riot control tactics and munitions against protesters to expand a security perimeter, which allowed for President Donald Trump to later walk from the White House to the historic St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square for a brief photo op. [11] Days later, anonymous fed...
The GAO has just released a report, Federal Tactical Teams: Characteristics, Training, Deployments, and Inventory, which mostly focuses on deployments in 2015-2019 but also includes an appendix on "Reported Tactical Team Deployments for Civil Unrest and Protests in May and June 2020." This info strikes me as quite relevant to the article, and ...
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Recent Deployments. Precise figures of deployed U.S. personnel are difficult to determine due to unit rotations in and out of a given theater. According to DOD, as of June 19, 2019, “there are approximately 60-80,000 U.S. troops in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility,” including approximately 13,000 troops in Afghanistan and ...
- The Future Size and Shape of the Army. Three opposing dynamics pull the future size and shape of the Army. One is the guidance in the NDS to focus on great power conflicts with Russia and China.
- Balance of Regular and Guard/Reserve Forces. Bottom line up front: Although the active/reserve mix has frequently been a source of tension in the Army, those tensions have eased recently as a result of closer consultation arising from the 2016 commission, higher budgets that benefit both components, and the difficulty that both components have in recruiting and retaining additional soldiers.
- Modernization – Current and Future. Looked at broadly, Army modernization is a “good news, good news, bad news” story: the good news is that the Army continues production of proven systems and has a well-modernized force as a result.
- Modernizing the Current Force. In the near term, the Army is sensibly plugging its most serious capability gaps by upgrading the major systems it has and producing these systems at relatively high rates.
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Sep 2, 2020 · 2 September 2020. By Jake Horton,BBC Reality Check. Getty Images. The National Guard is an army reserve force. US President Donald Trump has said he would deploy the National Guard - part of...