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There's an entire division of the military that is literally police. They serve a similar function to their civilian counterparts. There's also intelligence a

• catlifeonmars 1y ago
  2/7 is an infantry battalion. They have no training or experience policing. I was a member of an infantry battalion once tasked with doing policing in a foreign country. Let me just say that the outcome was exactly what you’d expect. We were very effective at responding with overwhelming force to attacks by an insurgency but pretty ineffective at keeping the peace.
  • closewith 1y ago
    > We were very effective at responding with overwhelming force to attacks by an insurgency I don't think you were, since all US COIN operations in living memory have been abject failures.
    • catlifeonmars 1y ago
      Heh not wrong but I think you stopped reading at “we were very effective” I never said we were effective at counterinsurgency ops
• kulahan 1y ago
  Well sure, but their police activities are limited to government installations. Their jurisdictions do not extend to “everywhere”