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To: Jim Robinson
IO disagree that deploying the military necessarily means an increasem in violence.

The ABC analysis ignores the difference between a police department dealing with a crime wave and a military force dealing with an insurrection.

Police are constrained to use minimum necessary force and to treat each perpetrator as an individual suspect. While the police are investigating and arresting individual criminals, the crime wave continues beyond their control

Once the decision has been made that it is no longer just a crime wave and that it has to be treate as an insurrection then military doctrine supplants police doctrime. That means that instead of using minimum necessary force, maximum available force is brought to bear.

Military doctrine has a clearer distinction between force and violence. Maximizing the early application of force has as its main purpose the suppression of violence.

In other words, if the deployed military is competent, there is an inverse relationship between force and violence.

23 posted on 03/08/2009 6:34:13 PM PDT by Clive
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To: Clive

“In other words, if the deployed military is competent...”

Doomed.


29 posted on 03/08/2009 6:41:35 PM PDT by Moose Burger
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