The U.S. military has increasingly found, in its operations around the world, that the weapons in its arsenal are sometimes too lethal — especially in situations where American troops are serving as peacekeepers, as is the case in parts of Iraq and Afghanistan today. This has led to what one Marine lieutenant general calls the “vulnerability gap”: the inability of U.S. soldiers to protect themselves against those aggressors whose threats fail to warrant the use of lethal force. Since at least the early 1990s, and quite often since 9/11, military operations have brought U.S. soldiers to crowded towns-turned-war zones where … Continue reading Shooting Not to Kill