My question is, why hasn’t the Oklahoma state guard (or the equivalent) been activated for war?
“My question is, why hasn’t the Oklahoma state guard (or the equivalent) been activated for war??”
Yes it has. They faxed Obama and are awaiting instructions from their master. All large state level law/paramilitary organizations are federally owned, and mercenaries answer to whoever pays them. When you accept federal funding for your national guard units, you also accept the strings attached.
Because the President can take over the state guard "to execute the Laws of the Union." (U.S. Const., Art. I, sec. 8, cl. 15). The last time I can remember where a state refused to enforce a federal court order was when the federal courts ordered the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The federal judge sent U.S. Marshals to enforce the order; the Governor called out the National Guard to block them; so President Eisenhower federalized the National Guard and the school was desegregated.