Marine Corps Creates Law-Enforcement Battalions

[Jan Klimkowski]

The police are getting militarized and the military is taking on policing. This can only end badly. Talk about mission creep.

I remember speaking to the chair of the Falklands War British Veterans Association in the late 90s, when Paras and Marines were being deployed in "peacekeeping missions" across southern Europe and Africa, and civilians were fairly routinely getting shot during such deployments.

This man was a former Para, who had been severely injured in combat.

He said to me (I paraphrase from memory): "Jan, Paras and Marines should never be deployed in peacekeeping missions in civilian areas. They are trained for high intensity combat. where usually you need to act first, and ask questions later. It is unfair on Paras and Marines, and on civilians, to use elite soldiers for such missions."

So, now the US Marine Corps is creating "Law-Enforcement Battalions".

The consequences will be brutal, tragic, and entirely predictable in their horror.