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fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week agoWhy is Trump deploying forces to US cities?
President Trump is deploying U.S. military forces to U.S. cities to address domestic cultural and political issues.
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump told U.S. military leaders to prepare to engage in domestic missions, saying the military would likely be targeting the "enemy from within" - a phrase Trump has used in the past to refer to progressives and left-leaning groups. The nation's top military heads gathered at Marine Corps Base Quantico, about 30 miles south of Washington D.C.
Hundreds of generals and admirals - senior commanders of the one-star rank or higher and their top advisers - have been summoned by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from all over the world to the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, with little notice. The White House official was not authorized to discuss the president's plans before a public announcement about his attendance and spoke on condition of anonymity.