THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE US MILITARY: RESOURCES

BACKGROUND

• Explainer: Why the “casual invocation” of the Insurrection Act by President Trump is so unusual, Harvard Kennedy School 

• The Posse Comitatus Act, explained, The Brennan Center for Justice

• The State And The Soldier: A History Of Civil-military Relations In The United States, by Kori Schake of AEI, Kori Schake

• Trump's National Guard deployments aren't random. They were planned years ago, National Public Radio 

THE CURRENT STATE

• Retired Army Colonel Ike Wilson: Trump’s Use and Abuse of the Military, Free Forum Podcast with Terrence McNally ‘69
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• DoD’s Shifting Homeland Defense Mission Could Undermine the Military’s Lethality, CSIS

• The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters, by Juliette Kayyem

• Political Violence Feeds on Itself, Juliette Kayyem, The Atlantic

• Trump is delivering the authoritarian government his party once warned about, The Atlantic 

• From attendee, Veteran, and Attorney Loren Voss: I run a federal domestic deployment tracker at Lawfare, which you can see here

• Attorney General Schwalb Sues to End Illegal National Guard Deployment in DC, Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia 

• Is the US Ready for the Next War?, The New Yorker

MILITARY-CIVILIAN RELATIONS

• Don’t Ask the U.S. Military to Save American Democracy, Foreign Affairs 

• DoD’s top officers lack skills needed to lead tomorrow’s military, report says, Federal News Network 

• When the Yellow Ribbons Fade: Reconnecting Our Soldiers and Citizens, War on the Rocks 

• How to Talk to a Veteran, War on the Rocks, by David W. Barno

• Rough Seas Ahead: Steering the Military Profession, War on the Rocks

THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE

• Unprovoked lethal strikes by the United States against vessels at sea may amount to international crimes, The United Nations 

• UK stops Caribbean intel sharing, citing US military's 'illegal' drug boat strikes, CBS 

• If America Abandons Europe, Will the Continent Fragment or Unify? War on the Rocks 

• Trump’s Strange Love Affair With Pakistan, The Wall Street Journal