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Someone has just suggested that we train soldiers to also deal with domestic public order matters with non-lethal force.
In other words: to train soldiers not to be soldiers.
It is presumably demanding enough to train soldiers to be soldiers.
Yes: some missions abroad involve peacekeeping, crowd control, etc; but that is not the same as domestic civil policing.
Policing is not the same as soldiering. And nor should it be.
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