The political purging of the military is a good thing, if the states were smart enough to set up state militias to take them in. Not National Guard, official State government units. If the enemy is firing all their soldiers and generals, snatch that shit up.
As far as I know, that is exactly what Florida and Texas have been doing. Florida reestalished their State Guard and is inviting people fired from the military to come join. And then Texas is encouraging disgruntled Border Patrol to join the Texas Rangers, and then has been using said Rangers to enforce border law (since now its Texas law they are breaking), as well as fighting the various cities doing stupid things in a very "One Riot, One Ranger" attitude reborn.
I suppose now, we just need to start convincing other states to do that. And considering most of the local elections are starting to be won by MAGA types, that bodes well for such strategies.
The problem with State Militias is that, in theory, the US military should actually be contracting them to fight wars, rather than PMCs. The US military federalized the national gaurd so they didn't have to do that. Worse, several state militaries have been dissolved due to them being corrupt as fuck, and also giant wastes of money because they don't produce good soldiers.
If the state could produce high quality troops, this wouldn't be such a problem. But the states haven't been producing their own military units (for the most part) in decades or centuries.
Fair. But the reformation of State Guard would at least be a start since they are answerable to the Governor rather than the Fed. You would just have to actually knuckle down and enforce some training regimes as well as find friendly arms suppliers. Which honestly may not be that difficult since so many arms makers are becoming fed up with the Left constantly trying to screw them. The harder would come in your heavy ordinance you outlined in the other post (naval and air power). That may require some creativity. Could help rebound the American shipping industry though if done right.
Basically each state needs a parallel guard. I guess that's what DeSantis is doing? We never should have let them centralize the national guard in the first place.
In fact I'd go a step further and say the militias should all be local. The state should just provide funding, unit standardization, and regular training. In an emergency the governor could call them up, but at all other times they are independently operated.
They're not really going far enough. You really need a full army, navy, air-force that is wholly accountable to the state government and is not connected to the US military.
You can guess why the feds don't want that.
In fact I'd go a step further and say the militias should all be local.
My only issue is that as local as they may be, they really do have to fall under some larger command structures for organization purposes. Most conflicts and emergencies are going to be cross-county. So you either need to start merging counties, or have a pre-built framework which the militias can fall into.
But there's also a huge extra issue. I'm not talking about only ground troops. I'm talking about both blue & brown water naval militias, and air militias as well. I don't just mean that as some libertarian fantasy, either. Decentralized, and discontiguous, low-kinetic warfare with the use of air & naval light vehicles & drones are going to be a more common thing going forward, and the only effective way to combat that is with similarly armed and organized militias. What that means is that your county's helicopter / drone squadron needs to be aware of, and in good communication with, your neighboring county's anti-aircraft militia units. Which means, even if the state is the sole commanding force of the militia, some sort of state apparatus will be needed for logistical, transport, and communication purposes.
The political purging of the military is a good thing, if the states were smart enough to set up state militias to take them in. Not National Guard, official State government units. If the enemy is firing all their soldiers and generals, snatch that shit up.
As far as I know, that is exactly what Florida and Texas have been doing. Florida reestalished their State Guard and is inviting people fired from the military to come join. And then Texas is encouraging disgruntled Border Patrol to join the Texas Rangers, and then has been using said Rangers to enforce border law (since now its Texas law they are breaking), as well as fighting the various cities doing stupid things in a very "One Riot, One Ranger" attitude reborn.
I suppose now, we just need to start convincing other states to do that. And considering most of the local elections are starting to be won by MAGA types, that bodes well for such strategies.
The problem with State Militias is that, in theory, the US military should actually be contracting them to fight wars, rather than PMCs. The US military federalized the national gaurd so they didn't have to do that. Worse, several state militaries have been dissolved due to them being corrupt as fuck, and also giant wastes of money because they don't produce good soldiers.
If the state could produce high quality troops, this wouldn't be such a problem. But the states haven't been producing their own military units (for the most part) in decades or centuries.
Fair. But the reformation of State Guard would at least be a start since they are answerable to the Governor rather than the Fed. You would just have to actually knuckle down and enforce some training regimes as well as find friendly arms suppliers. Which honestly may not be that difficult since so many arms makers are becoming fed up with the Left constantly trying to screw them. The harder would come in your heavy ordinance you outlined in the other post (naval and air power). That may require some creativity. Could help rebound the American shipping industry though if done right.
Basically each state needs a parallel guard. I guess that's what DeSantis is doing? We never should have let them centralize the national guard in the first place.
In fact I'd go a step further and say the militias should all be local. The state should just provide funding, unit standardization, and regular training. In an emergency the governor could call them up, but at all other times they are independently operated.
They're not really going far enough. You really need a full army, navy, air-force that is wholly accountable to the state government and is not connected to the US military.
You can guess why the feds don't want that.
My only issue is that as local as they may be, they really do have to fall under some larger command structures for organization purposes. Most conflicts and emergencies are going to be cross-county. So you either need to start merging counties, or have a pre-built framework which the militias can fall into.
But there's also a huge extra issue. I'm not talking about only ground troops. I'm talking about both blue & brown water naval militias, and air militias as well. I don't just mean that as some libertarian fantasy, either. Decentralized, and discontiguous, low-kinetic warfare with the use of air & naval light vehicles & drones are going to be a more common thing going forward, and the only effective way to combat that is with similarly armed and organized militias. What that means is that your county's helicopter / drone squadron needs to be aware of, and in good communication with, your neighboring county's anti-aircraft militia units. Which means, even if the state is the sole commanding force of the militia, some sort of state apparatus will be needed for logistical, transport, and communication purposes.