You're the president of a democracy and your army just deposed a dictator with a war. What's your plan to rebuild that country, and what's your exit strategy?

@concrete_baby · 9 months ago

You're the president of a democracy and your army just deposed a dictator with a war. What's your plan to rebuild that country, and what's your exit strategy?

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

Soldiers are generally disciplined and trained to a high standard.

Depending on the “Democracy” the police force may be a gang of fascist wife beating dog shooting thugs that flunked out of basic training or failed their psych test trying to become a soldier.

Perhaps military police are the answer as the best peacekeeping force? I dont know. I shudder to think how many war crimes some police forces could perform on foreign soil, unsupervised, if they don’t even have to pretend to be accountable as they do at home.

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

Those are some great points. Both police and soldiers have been both the best and the worst.

Some qualities I would like:

Ability to integrate locals over time.
Ability and initiative to investigate crimes.
Less armed to avoid being off-putting.
Ability to call in more forces as needed.
Part of the population, and not wholly separate.
Not abusive.
Not fascist.
Highly trained.
Highly disciplined.