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An article lauding the contribution of the Italian Carabinieri:
Link:https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2018/04/todays-not-quite-wars-italy-has-alternative-traditional-troops/147457/?oref=DefenseOneTCO

Prompted by the next post on the Italian Carabinieri I have reviewed the threads in this arena and merged two. There was an old thread 'American Gendarmarie' now merged into this thread.

The...

Thanks to a "lurker" for the pointer to this July 2016 Australian article, 'An Australian Gendarmerie Force' on the Australian Army's blog. The role of a paramilitary gendarmerie, even a military...

Good point, but a number of UN peacekeeping missions have successfully used para-military units, invariably from nations with an armed gendarmerie, first for the occasional public order / riot...

The Wiki gives a definition as:

Link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarmerie

Later it says:

Generally they are national bodies, which historically have been for internal defence - of the...

Morgan,

Thank you. Yes it is the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Battalions, which on a quick Google check have an active and reserve component.

Hopefully such formations learn from outside the...

Ah TheCurmudgeon,

SWC has passed through this area of interest before.

Just using 'gendarmerie' in a simple search I found threads:

1943 - Reorganization of the Imperial Iranian Gendarmerie...