President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday directing state National Guard units to be ready to assist local, state and federal law enforcement, a potential step toward a dramatic ...

The U.S. military has issued an order to the National Guard in all 50 states and four territories to form rapid-response units that can be sent out on demand to contain civil unrest, armed with batons ...

The Pentagon has ordered thousands of specialized National Guard personnel to complete civil unrest mission training over the next several months, an indication that the Trump administration’s effort ...

NATO will soon increase the size of its Response Force, a multinational package of air, land, and sea forces meant to come to the aid of frontline states. In the wake of Russia’s ongoing invasion of ...

The Pentagon is reportedly drawing up plans for a "reaction force" of hundreds of National Guard members who would be ready to deploy at any moment to help quell civil unrest. The plan, reported by ...

The Trump administration is looking at plans to set up a 600-person National Guard “quick reaction force” to quickly deploy to U.S. cities to quell protests or other unrest, The Washington Post ...