The National Guard is planning to train up to 500 troops per state to serve as part of a rapid-response force focused on civil disturbance missions, a U.S. official says.

The National Guard is building a “quick reaction force” (QRF) of some 23,500 troops trained in crowd control and civil disturbance that can be ready to deploy to U.S. cities by early next year,

The Pentagon is reportedly drawing up plans for a "reaction force" of hundreds of National Guard members who would be ready to deploy at any moment to help quell civil unrest. The plan, reported by the Washington Post, for a "Domestic Civil Disturbance ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is continuing to boost its military forces near Venezuela to combat threats from Latin American drug cartels — even after a U.S. strike destroyed what President Donald Trump said was a drug-carrying boat operated by ...