#Domestic deployment of active-duty US military, as is now taking place in #LosAngeles, is both rare & perilous. Not since the 1992 riots in that same city has the country seen such a use of the armed services. But that was a one-off. The more relevant, & worrying, parallel may be the period from 1957 to the end of 1968, when military forces actively patrolled US soil on 8 separate occasions.
Indeed, this absence of lethal force proved typical: The only fatality caused by active-duty #soldiers during this 12-yr period occurred during the 1967 #Detroit riots. The low number of deaths is at least partly why, except for the 101st Airborne’s deployment to #LittleRock, most Americans barely remember these earlier #domestic#military interventions. Even in moments of widespread turbulence, the active-duty military exercised restraint overall.
A soldier of the 14th Chervona Kalyna Brigade of the Ukrainian National Guard carries a shell as the company fires an OTO Melara howitzer towards Russian troops in the Donetsk region, Pokrovsk, #Ukraine