- Reaction score
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Spring 2016
Underutilized state guards can help with homeland defense.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/militia-you%E2%80%99ve-never-heard-14339.html
The New York Guard is an example of a state defense force: a military organization authorized by federal law but created, controlled, and funded by each state. State defense forces, or “SDFs,” assist with defense and disaster-recovery missions, but, unlike the National Guard, they cannot be deployed outside their home states. SDF units typically fall under the control of the state adjutant general—the same official who commands the National Guard when it is in state service. As the Heritage Foundation put it in 2012, SDFs are “today’s modern state militias.”
A similar discussion here back in 2008, "The Canadian Home Guard? Possibility?".
Underutilized state guards can help with homeland defense.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/militia-you%E2%80%99ve-never-heard-14339.html
The New York Guard is an example of a state defense force: a military organization authorized by federal law but created, controlled, and funded by each state. State defense forces, or “SDFs,” assist with defense and disaster-recovery missions, but, unlike the National Guard, they cannot be deployed outside their home states. SDF units typically fall under the control of the state adjutant general—the same official who commands the National Guard when it is in state service. As the Heritage Foundation put it in 2012, SDFs are “today’s modern state militias.”
A similar discussion here back in 2008, "The Canadian Home Guard? Possibility?".