Federalizing it won't solve much. The National Guard has all the weak points of a citizen militia; part time citizen-soldiers tightly integrated into the civilian communities they would be taskdd with policing.
https://twitter.com/DamarisTighe/status/1448466383713357827
Chalmers Johnson, an american cold war warrior par excellence (also something of a formative thinker in my intellectual development), worried in the last decade of is life about the US following essentially the roman path toward military dictatorship.
He worried that the expansion of the forever wars in the middle east (this was during Bush II's second term) would create a large caste of warriors alienated from civilian life, with their own martial culture susceptible to charismatic generals subverting the political system.
In 2021 its clear Johnson was just wrong about where the US was headed. The US military is not a world unto its own; it is bisected by the same division between the credentialed managers and the grunts who no longer believe them as the rest of the US.
Well, the national guard is STRUCTURALLY the opposite of this class of distant warriors Johnson (correctly) pointed to as the necessary muscle for tyranny to take root in the US. And that's the point! The founding fathers disliked standing armies for a reason!
I assume the US government ocassionally wargames this stuff, and just the problems from these vaccine mandates would lead me to believe the US Army has to count on a *significant* amount of desertion if it was ever deployed against americans.
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