(04-17-2016, 08:11 PM)syscrash Wrote: You do not have to have been in the US military to know military tactics. There are groups that use military tatics that are not military.l The police a a good example.
Can you tell me what you mean by police using military tactics?
In the meantime, I'll share what I know. My father was a policeman. The way I understand this, the police cannot use military tactics in their day to day operations. They are charged with keeping the peace and preventing crime.
If the situation escalates to the point where the police can no longer use their resources to resolve the conflict, (i.e., it becomes a battle), the armed forces are called in.
The military has the manpower, organizational skills, strategy and weapons to fight the battle. Those are military tactics.
We had a tornado in our town a long time ago. We are equivalent in size to Portland and lost a quarter of our city to the storm. With so large of an area to cover, the police could not adequately protect the victims or their homes from looters. The armed forces were called in to guard and protect the victims and the devastated areas. If anyone who was unauthorized went into the area, they faced the threat of being shot and killed. The armed forces have that authority as part of their military tactics. Policemen do not.
I don't see Meisner as an American military man. I said he was a mercenary, and now that I think about that term, I was wrong in calling him that. Mercenaries do utilize military tactics, but from what I understand, they're usually a group that hold the same beliefs. Meisner doesn't fit into that mold. I'm not really sure what I would call him at this point.
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