Population protection = policing, and don't you forget that. Also, don't forget that the US military is not police, no matter how well we're trained, we're not trained for that. The job of being loose-wristed police falls to the UN and their gendarmerie trained non-participatory Frenchies. Oh, but wait, the UN refuses to go into Iraq. So, our long term plan to increase the army and marines means we're effectively creating a numerical base enough to sustain a police force. The UN and Europe should be very afraid that they're further being sidelined into permanently an oral role.