(for the 'Stories' part)
As I said in my COINightning picture topic, I don’t like killing, military or else, and GTX_Admin told me Nonlethal weapons may be used instead. This is a revolution for a new COIN concept.
All started in the USA it seems. While the US Army was fighting Vietnamese Insurgency with heavily armed Broncos and helicopters, pacifists yelled in the homeland: it is normal that local individuals revolt against a foreign overpower, and this is exactly how the US were born, while British loyalists tried to crush violently this insurgency. As ethics principle is “don’t do against others what you would not like being done against you”, the US should stop to counter insurgency but understand this may be the good way against dictatorship.
Of course, evil killers should be stopped anyway, but if we kill them as well, how to pretend we are The Good? Nonlethal weapons have been the perfect answer, to stop the bad while not being bad ourselves, contrary to them!
This was a double victory.
Firefighting weapon sellers and lovers hated this, but they were sent to psychiatric examination, and most of them changed their mind…
No? Am I dreaming? Is COIN principle still acute killing? 
EDIT: this is not a forum to discuss violently, just a fantasy smile, sad and without much hope, sorry...
