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In Canada, it is considered good manners that, uponvisiting someone's home for the first time, you should bring a gift.
In that spirit, I am presenting a gift to you, my American friends. It is my hope that it will be well recieved.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/
Apparently, the third infantry's 1st BCT has been assigned to NORTHCOM until 2010. Now, this is not the first time active duty soldiers have been ordered to perform domestic operations - They were used for Katrina, as well as the riots in Los Angeles, Detroit and Little Rock. This does however, mark the first time in modern history (at least as far as I'm aware) that an active combat unit has been permanently assigned to domestic operations like this.
Granted, a single brigade is not enough to impose martial law nationwide, but at the same time, you don't reassign troops like this (especially while conducting *2* foriegn wars) unless you forsee a specific need for them in the future. A brigade, supported by local police and National Guard could certainly "pacify" a city...say New York or Washington. So my question is this:
What do they know, or expect to happen, that would require combat hardened troops, supported by artillery, armor and air cavalry, in a major city?
In Canada, it is considered good manners that, uponvisiting someone's home for the first time, you should bring a gift.
In that spirit, I am presenting a gift to you, my American friends. It is my hope that it will be well recieved.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/
Apparently, the third infantry's 1st BCT has been assigned to NORTHCOM until 2010. Now, this is not the first time active duty soldiers have been ordered to perform domestic operations - They were used for Katrina, as well as the riots in Los Angeles, Detroit and Little Rock. This does however, mark the first time in modern history (at least as far as I'm aware) that an active combat unit has been permanently assigned to domestic operations like this.
Granted, a single brigade is not enough to impose martial law nationwide, but at the same time, you don't reassign troops like this (especially while conducting *2* foriegn wars) unless you forsee a specific need for them in the future. A brigade, supported by local police and National Guard could certainly "pacify" a city...say New York or Washington. So my question is this:
What do they know, or expect to happen, that would require combat hardened troops, supported by artillery, armor and air cavalry, in a major city?