I agree with you, but the real world isn't ideal and a lot of irregular conflicts require a military to maintain stability and security in the absence of police. Thus, like it or not, soldiers of developed nations will find themselves facing riots, demonstrators and other threats that jeopardize one's mission. If it can't be ignored it has to be dealt with - I think this is a common trend faced by most soldiers in defence of empire, from Roman days through to modernity.
Is lethal force suffice, or do we need to integrate LL capabilities and TTPs? I think we do, but fail to see how it can be integrated without doing harm to a force's warfighting abilities.
For the sake of argument, one option could be to create a specialist 'Less Lethal' platoon within a Combat Team when involved in a stability op. Set them up like para-military police, and use them as the centre of excellence for countering riots, deploying dogs/tasers/CS/etc etc. They would be well suited to a number of tasks tying down conventional infantry platoons who would be better off actively patrolling - tasks such as VCPs, base security, key point protection, etc. I'm not completely comfortable with this option but it does seem preferable to the master-of-all-trades model.
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