I want to welcome everyone back to part six of my reading of Kuday Ta by Edward Lutwak.

John Fieldhouse is back, and we're going to jump right in. Stop me anytime, John. Here we go.

Neutralizing the police. The flags and uniforms of the military forces of different countries are very different,

but their structure and organization tend to be similar because they reflect the universality of modern technology.

The tactical implications of weapons and ancillary equipment impose a certain uniformity on military organization.

This has enabled us to study their infiltration

in terms that are generally applicable. Police forces, however, are shaped by local, social,

and political conditions and are therefore very diverse. Police officers can be armed very heavily

or not at all. They can be concentrated in mobile and hard-hitting units or dispersed in small groups.

They can be controlled by the Ministry of Defense and thus have a military training and

outlook or by the local community and be extremely civilian-minded.

Though their structure is so diverse, police forces resemble each other and the purposes they serve.

The prevention and detection of crime and the maintenance of public order,

which is the task of separate paramilitary forces in some countries where there are no such forces,

is secured by concentrating and deploying ordinary police taken from their other work.

Police work also includes an intelligent element.

Information is gathered informally by the entire police apparatus and their informers,

but there will usually be a special section of the police whose only function is in this area.

The intelligence aspect of police work will be effectively neutralized by our general

defensive effort vis-a-vis the security services, which is discussed in the next section.

Paramilitary forces do not exist in the United Kingdom, where there are provisions for the

Army to act in support of the civil power, or in the United Kingdom, where there are provisions for the army to act in support

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