• Auli@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    That would never work. So each state has their own army? What are the training standards? What about not giving any troops but then wanting help.

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      4 hours ago

      Trade. A state that is troop poor or reluctant to let them be borrowed, can instead offer money or some other assistance to get help from another state. The training standards would presumably be per state…but the regional government can hold a program. For example, “we train 6,000 of Colorado’s state guard for 7 months, we get to rent them for X dollars, and for up to Y months at a time.”

      The important thing is to give states enough agency to say no, or to have fair terms with their regional president.