The combat shotgun

[JMA]

I'll have to start a thread on this at some point, but frankly whatever the national political authorities decide the army will do is "work for an army." It may not be the army's preferred work, and it might well clash (in terms of TTPs) with other things the army does. That's life.

Yes please start that new thread.

There is not enough time to train the "army" (any army) to carryout all the various tasks politicians commit them to.

There are not enough people in every country who are intellectually capable of switching from from task to another at the drop of a hat and then onto a third shortly thereafter.

The word "policing" should give it away. When its policing they want then they should use the police or a police force.

Anyway I await your thread on this topic with some interest.