Would DeSantis’ revived Florida State Guard succeed or fail? Here’s how the other states’ forces have fared.

Barry Stentiford, author of the book “America’s Home Guard,” doesn’t find Florida’s plan so controversial. If done properly, Florida’s State Guard could be on par with other such groups across the U.S., said Stentiford, a retired reserve colonel who works for the Army as a professor of history at the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies in Kansas.