Militia
Why We Need Independent Militias
by Ryan McMaken, Mises Institute Early Americans feared the federal government would overwhelm the states with a large standing army and better-armed military force. To prevent this, many supported a decentralized system of state militias which would provide the bulk...
Resurrecting Constitutional Authority: The National Guard and the States
Around the globe, the United States has intervened militarily for over one-hundred years, supposedly to preserve the American way of life and “spread democracy.” But after billions spent and thousands of lives lost in pursuit of this dual mandate, many...
Rattling the Pentagon’s Cage: Defend the Guard Legislation Threatens the Unconstitutional Status Quo
Threats from Pentagon officials doomed a West Virginia bill that would have blocked unconstitutional foreign deployments of the stateโs National Guard troops and effectively restored the foundersโ framework for a state-federal balance on the Guard. But while the bill...Is Pres. Obama Authorized to Use National Guard in Liberia?
Recent headlines indicate that President Barack Obama is sending the National Guard to Liberia to help fight the spread of the Ebola virus.ย Their assignment, according to Obama in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, is to “augment the active forces in...