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On June 1, 2020, amid the George Floyd protests in Washington, D.C., security forces deployed tear gas and other riot control tactics to forcefully clear Lafayette Square and surrounding streets of protesters to create a path for President Trump and senior administration officials to walk from the White House to St. John's Episcopal Church for ...
The military of the United States is deployed in most countries around the world, with approximately 160,000 of its active-duty personnel stationed outside the United States and its territories. This list consists of deployments excepting active combat deployments, including troops in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia.
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- 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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The 2019-2020 Iran Crisis and U.S. Military Deployments. The January 2, 2020, U.S. drone strike against Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, the subsequent Iranian counter-strike on bases hosting U.S. personnel in Iraq, and recent deployments of U.S. military forces to the Middle East have prompted widespread concerns about whether the United ...
In June 2020, the Trump administration began deploying federal law enforcement forces to select cities in the United States in response to rioting and monument removals amid the George Floyd protests.
Oct 24, 2019 · Key Takeaways. Special Operations Forces (SOF) SOF is gradually expanding, continuing to depend on Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funding, and increasingly organizationally independent. SOF is also facing a new disturbing theme of ethical misconduct by its personnel. DOD Civilians.
