https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-mexico-governor-withdraws-national-guard-border-slams-trump-s-n968336 The governor of New Mexico ordered the state’s National Guard to withdraw a majority of its troops from the southern border, slamming what she called President Donald Trump’s “charade” shortly before his State of the Union address on Tuesday.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/01/04/politics/trump-border-wall-national-emergency-declaration/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F And see: 10 U.S.C. 2808 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/2808 And see 10 U.S.C 284 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/284 And see 10 U.S.C 331-334 https://policy.defense.gov/portals/11/documents/hdasa/references/insurrection_act.pdf Sent from my iPhone
Gary Anderson (Elliott School of International Affairs) discusses what hybrid warfare is, and what it isn’t. smallwarsjournal.com Counter-Hybrid Warfare: Winning in the Gray Zone | Small Wars Journal
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/dem-senator-tear-gas-use-at-us-mexico-border-a-violation-of-conventions-on-chemical-weapons/ NO. NOTE: The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, “Article II. Definitions and Criteria.” at Paragraph 9,“Purposes Not Prohibited Under this Convention”, subparagraph (d) specified “Law enforcement including domestic riot control purposes.” https://www.opcw.org/chemical-weapons-convention/articles/article-ii-definitions-and-criteria Aside from this being a defense support to civil authorities (DSCA) mission in support of…
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/11/21/white-house-approves-use-of-force-some-law-enforcement-roles-for-border-troops/ and see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gej9FfbSAi4 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction 3121.01B, Standing Rules of Engagement (SROE)/Standing Rules for the Use of Force (SRUF) for U.S. Forces, dated 13 June 2005 are the result of a review and revision of the previous 2000 and 1994 editions. They provide…
National Guard and Active Duty Lend a Hand to Civil Authorities on the Border OCTOBER 19, 2018 03:54:07 PM Kevin Govern Edited by: Erin McCarthy Holliday JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of the Ave Maria School of Law reveals the policy and legal limitations that will affect the involvement of…
New Orleans, LA–Aerial views of damage caused from Hurricane Katrina the day after the hurricane hit August 30, 2005. Photo by Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA Thirteen Years On: Lessons (Re)Learned From “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Government Effort AUGUST 31, 2018 12:41:15 PM Kevin Govern…
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44527672 However, the US Congress would need to pass a law authorising it before any new branch of the military could be created. See: The National Security Act of 1947: https://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780195385168/resources/chapter10/nsa/nsa.pdf
https://www.fpri.org/article/2018/05/disproportionate-force-in-gaza-context-matters/ If open-fire orders were violated, then those responsible must be addressed accordingly. In the same spirit that Hamas must respond to those residents it sent to the fence, the IDF must ask itself whether the response was proportional or if alternative measures (non-lethal) could have been implemented before open-fire…
South Korean soldiers near the Demilitarized Zone on Tuesday.CreditYonhap/EPA, via Shutterstock SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea threw President Trump’s planned summit meeting with its leader, Kim Jong-un, into doubt … , threatening to call off the landmark encounter if the United States insisted on “unilateral nuclear abandonment.” The warning,…
