This is a really bad article, they're on standby for Minnesota and not Greenland. Even the article mentions this and downplays Greenland repeatedly while still trying to plant that seed to keep the user scrolling through the ads.
"The selection of the 11th Airborne Division has immediately drawn scrutiny. Reconstituted and reoriented in recent years, the division is widely regarded as the Army’s premier Arctic and cold-weather formation, optimized for sub-zero operations, austere airfields, glacier movement, and high-latitude logistics.
Military planners note that for domestic crowd-control or security missions in the Midwest, National Guard units or conventional active-duty formations are typically preferred. “This is an Arctic hammer being readied for an urban nail,” said a retired logistics officer familiar with force-generation planning. “That mismatch is what’s raising eyebrows.”"
it's about to get really effing cold in Minnesota.
>they're on standby for Minnesota and not Greenland.
If you still believe the president at this point, sure. That's the current spin.
If you don't, it's very weird to need (what is taken from their website) the division that " conducts Multi-Domain Operations in the Indo-Pacific theater and the Arctic." to come down to the continential US to control a few protestors in Minnesota. I think only Hawaii is a father set of troops to deploy in comparison.
Deploying troops to Greenland right now would be solely aimed at seizing Greenland by force and would be a major international incident against the US's most important military allies. Deploying troops to Minnesota would be a domestic show of force that would have minimal impact, as they are incapable of seizing Minnesota for the US as it is already a US territory, so they would be used to guard public buildings (and would basically just sit around doing nothing all day).
It's LLM-generated too. Not subtle about it either; besides being gross unreadable dreck, things it represents as direct quotes from experts are hallucinations.
I.e., the quote attributed (falsely) to a CSIS analyst, "A domestic mission provides legal cover to load aircraft, marshal equipment, and place units on short notice. The moment of truth is the flight plan", is unique to this domain.
And: "This is an Arctic hammer being readied for an urban nail" has no results anywhere else on the internet. Nor do the substrings, "arctic hammer" + "urban nail".
The headline does seem unnecessarily alarmist. The article itself is about the speculation that it is more than just a coincidence. It is very upfront about that fact.
If the article isn’t booted from this site for being too political, it would probably be beneficial to edit the headline somewhat, to note that it is speculation.
No it would not be better, it would be a disaster. The Army (and especially Marines) are trained to the point of muscle memory to respond to aggression with overwhelming deadly force. It's not a good idea to task them with handling protestors like it's not a good idea to task a trained fighting dog to play at a dog park.
Readit News
Time is running out, his private storm troops are already flooding the cities of the opposition.
That was before he was orange or a politician. If you are trying to find the cause of some odd effect, look what happened when it first appeared.
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"The selection of the 11th Airborne Division has immediately drawn scrutiny. Reconstituted and reoriented in recent years, the division is widely regarded as the Army’s premier Arctic and cold-weather formation, optimized for sub-zero operations, austere airfields, glacier movement, and high-latitude logistics.
Military planners note that for domestic crowd-control or security missions in the Midwest, National Guard units or conventional active-duty formations are typically preferred. “This is an Arctic hammer being readied for an urban nail,” said a retired logistics officer familiar with force-generation planning. “That mismatch is what’s raising eyebrows.”"
it's about to get really effing cold in Minnesota.
Just another click/rage bait article...
If you still believe the president at this point, sure. That's the current spin.
If you don't, it's very weird to need (what is taken from their website) the division that " conducts Multi-Domain Operations in the Indo-Pacific theater and the Arctic." to come down to the continential US to control a few protestors in Minnesota. I think only Hawaii is a father set of troops to deploy in comparison.
You say this like it's better?
FTFA> "Adding to the unease are unconfirmed reports of increased Special Operations Forces activity linked to Arctic training and reconnaissance."
Narrator> it's Winter in the US..
I feel bad for the people in Minnesota though.
I.e., the quote attributed (falsely) to a CSIS analyst, "A domestic mission provides legal cover to load aircraft, marshal equipment, and place units on short notice. The moment of truth is the flight plan", is unique to this domain.
And: "This is an Arctic hammer being readied for an urban nail" has no results anywhere else on the internet. Nor do the substrings, "arctic hammer" + "urban nail".
https://old.reddit.com/r/news/
If the article isn’t booted from this site for being too political, it would probably be beneficial to edit the headline somewhat, to note that it is speculation.
Although, to be fair, the Trump administration might 'just' be planning a military occupation of some of Minnesota.