Pentagon Considers ‘Quick Reaction Force’ to Stop Civil Unrest in U.S. Cities

National Guard troops started arriving in Washington, D.C., on August 12 to begin enforcing President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the city’s law enforcement.

• The troops are part of a larger 800-member deployment ordered by the administration to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital.

Final straw: Edward Coristine, a Trump administration staffer who played a key role in the early days of the Department of Government Efficiency, was beaten up on August 5 by 10 black teenagers. He was trying to stop them from assaulting a woman in her car.

This led President Trump to call for a change in the law so that teenagers who commit violent crimes can be charged as adults.

A week later, Trump announced that he would activate the National Guard and federalize D.C. law enforcement.

Crime in Washington, D.C., is totally out of control. If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take federal control of the city, and run this city how it should be run, and put criminals on notice that they’re not going to get away with it anymore.
—Donald Trump, Truth Social post

Quick reaction force: President Trump can seize control of the D.C. police for only 48 hours without congressional approval and for only 30 days if he sends a special notice to certain congressional committees. So his administration is looking into more long-term solutions to the nation’s serious crime problems.

According to the Washington Post, the Trump administration is considering establishing a permanent “reaction force” comprised of hundreds of National Guard members to deploy quickly into U.S. cities to quell civil unrest.

Internal Pentagon documents outline that this Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force would put 600 National Guard troops on standby at all times, ready to deploy at a moment’s notice. A group of 300 would be stationed in Alabama, and another group in Arizona.

Between the Los Angeles anti-immigration riots in May and the crime wave currently plaguing D.C., the Trump administration realizes that bold action is required to crack down on crime.

Prophesied violence: The Prophet Ezekiel describes end-time America in grisly detail: “Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence” (Ezekiel 7:23). There are so many bloody crimes in Israel that they will be like links in a chain, one following right after another.

This onslaught has prompted discussions on the need for a quick reaction force. But unless the nation turns to God, this force could lead to an escalation in violence as criminals fight back.

Another prophecy reveals that one third of the population of end-time America and Britain will die from the pestilence, famine and violence that result from civil war (Ezekiel 5:12). Violent riots like the L.A. protest are just the beginning of this prophecy. (Request our free book Ezekiel—The End-Time Prophet for more information.)

President Trump’s Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force may yield short-term results, but the long-term trends causing crime and rioting continue.