Pentagon readies active-duty troops for possible Minnesota deployment

The Pentagon ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers from Alaska’s 11th Airborne Division to prepare for a potential deployment to Minnesota to support local law enforcement, with additional units likely to join for logistics. The troops are Arctic-trained and not suited for crowd control, and the move signals a tougher stance after Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act amid Minneapolis protests. Minnesota Gov. Walz has mobilized the National Guard but has not deployed it, and no deployment has been ordered yet.