On Monday, Idaho’s state Senate passed the Defend the Guard Act, legislation that would prohibit the deployment of the state’s National Guard to a combat zone without a declaration of war from Congress, as required by the Constitution.
The bill was introduced in January by Sen. Ben Adams and passed in a vote of 27-8. It now heads to the state’s House of Representatives for consideration.
Idaho’s Senate is the third state legislature to approve the Defend the Guard Act. “This is the third legislative body to pass Defend the Guard this year, following New Hampshire and Arizona,” Bring Our Troops Home, the group behind Defend the Guard, wrote on X.
Defend the Guard is a national movement to rein in the federal government’s ability to wage war by restricting the deployment of the National Guard to dangerous combat zones.
Visit Defendtheguard.us to see if the Defend the Guard Act has been introduced in your state. Click here to volunteer for phone banking to help get the legislation passed in states where it has been introduced.
Military.com reported in 2015 that “Guard and Reserve units made up about 45 percent of the total force sent to Iraq and Afghanistan and received about 18.4 percent of the casualties.”
National Guard units are still deployed to wars in the Middle East and Africa, including in Syria and Somalia. The recent drone attack that killed three members of the US Army Reserve at Tower 22 in Jordan also wounded about 40 members of the Arizona National Guard.
Since it is a “National Guard”, can this really stop the president from deploying them without congressional approval? It sounds like a great idea, if it works.
On the other hand this could have little effect since the majority of congress are warmongers themselves…!
That too.
Every state should do this. Given Ukraine and Israel involvement in what appear to be long term wars, there seems to be no limit to what the federal government is willing to “help out” their pets.
I agree 100% no more endless “wars” sucking up National Guard lives and money.
The warmongers in DC most likely would threaten to cut state funds if any other state try to pass this Defend the Guard Act…!
Or staff the regular army with migrants like some of them are already planning https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13159173/Retired-Army-colonel-warns-against-courage-serve-act-allow-migrants-obtain-citizenship-joining-military-amid-shortage-white-Americans-enlisting.html
I hope this becomes a national virus.
A well-regulated you-know-what-that-starts-with-M could never be sent to war overseas, declared or not. Oops. Hope I didn’t trigger any spooks listening in.