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.
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.