Former President Donald Trump’s election victory on Tuesday and his upcoming return to the White House next year mean he will have the opportunity to implement plans to use the military against what he calls internal “enemies” at home and reshape policies and personnel to your image.

While Trump has been vague about exactly how he would carry out his plans, he spoke repeatedly during the election campaign about using the military for domestic purposes, including to help carry out mass deportations, attack political rivals and quell any protests while in office. in office. .

He, like other Republicans, He has also criticized the so-called “awakening” military policies, such as those aimed at making the military more welcoming to minorities, LGBTQ+ people and women, and vowed to fire generals and others he considers “woke.”

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Trump’s first four years in office could offer a preview of how he will use the military in his next term.

In the summer of 2020, during the height of mass racial justice protests across the country, Trump considered deploying active-duty troops against protesters. But he was stymied by opposition from his own officials, including then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper, whom Trump later fired, in part because of Esper’s opposition to invoking a law called the Insurrection Act to deploy troops against the protesters.

Since Trump is expected to choose only loyalists to fill his government this time, the obstacles that prevented him from acting on his wishes last time are unlikely to exist. And although service members are bound by their oaths not to follow illegal orders, There are few safeguards to actually prevent that an illegal order be executed.

Among those whom Trump has spoken of attacking with the military are “the enemy within,” including “the fascists, the Marxists, the communists, the people we have who really run the country.”

“Those people are more dangerous – the enemy within – than Russia, China and other people,” Trump said at a rally in October. Specific people he has named as enemies include Democratic politicians such as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff of California, who was elected to the Senate on Tuesday night.

Trump has also talked about using the military to help carry out his plan to deport tens of millions of undocumented immigrants living in the United States. an interview with Time magazine Earlier this year, Trump said he would take great advantage of the National guardalthough it left open the possibility of using other military elements.

TO Trump’s spokesperson told Fox News Wednesday that Trump will launch his deportation operations on his first day in office.

Meanwhile, Trump has said he will revive a plan he first enacted at the end of his first term that would allow him to easily fire nonpolitical public officials and replace them with political appointees. Civilians working at the Pentagon would be among the bureaucrats at risk, and Trump’s campaign platform promised to “reform federal departments and agencies, firing all corrupt actors in our Intelligence and Homeland Security apparatus.”

The 2024 Republican platform also promised that Republicans ““Wake up the fired left-wing Democrats” of the army “as soon as possible” if they win the elections. And when asked at a rally in October about creating a commission to root out “woke” generals and policies, Trump endorsed the idea. The rally that asked Trump about the commission was ex Space Force officer Matthew Lohmeier, who He was fired after complaining on a podcast that Marxist ideologies were infiltrating the military, and Trump at the rally also agreed to appoint Lohmeier to the commission.

Republicans have often struggled to name specific diversity and training policies initiated by the Biden administration when they say they distract from war preparations. But some previous Republican goals Trump could pursue include closing diversity offices and ending the long-standing practice of affirmative action at military academies.

Trump has also He said he would revive previous names of bases that honored Confederate generals, particularly Fort Bragg, which was renamed Strong Freedom. The name change was made by order of Congress, on a bipartisan basis, to stop glorifying the traitors who fought against the United States during the Civil War.

Another policy that Republicans consider woke and that Trump could eliminate is open service to transgender people. Trump banned transgender troops in his first term, but President Joe Biden lifted the ban shortly after taking office.

Republicans have also been eager to repeal a policy implemented by the Biden administration that allows service members to take leave and receive reimbursement if they need to travel for an abortion.

Other big changes at the Pentagon expected to come under Trump include US support for Ukraine. The United States has supplied Ukraine with billions of dollars in weapons since Russia’s large-scale invasion in 2022.

But Trump has expressed skepticism about pursuing that, praising Russian President Vladimir Putin, criticizing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and calling for Ukraine to reach a deal with Russia that “gives a little.”

Trump and Republicans have also promised to increase the defense budget, something he did in his first term.

The 2024 Republican platform pledges to “invest in cutting-edge research and advanced technologies, including an iron-domed missile defense shield,” referring to the Israeli missile defense system that is designed for short-range missiles from Israel’s neighbors. and that it would therefore be impractical to defend the United States from the threats it faces from its adversaries’ long-range missiles.

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