Author: Michael

Executives from high-tech firms Meta, OpenAI and Palantir are joining the Army Reserve at the rank of lieutenant colonel to serve in Detachment 201, a new “Executive Innovation Corps,” the service announced Friday.
The move is the latest push by the department to tap into capabilities and know-how from Silicon Valley and the commercial sector.
The new corps “brings top tech talent into the Army Reserve to bridge the commercial-military tech gap” and is “designed to fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation,” the Army stated in a press release.

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It’s been a significant week for civil-military relations. Since immigration protests started in Los Angeles on June 6, about 4,000 federalized California National Guardsmen and 700 Marines have been ordered to deploy to the city to protect federal personnel and buildings.
If President Donald Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, federal troops would also be authorized to enforce civilian laws on American soil. First passed in 1807, the Insurrection Act is often confused with martial law, but the two are very different.

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