A civilian has rights. He must be told these rights, be given a lawyer, cannot be taken into custody without probable cause, when he is arrainged he can probably post bail, and supposedly he is innocent until proven guilty.
A soldier is guilty until proven innocent. If a major or above testifies that he saw the soldier do something wrong, that soldier is considered guilty right then and there. If he says the officer is lying, he gets hit with the charge of disrespecting an officer. When arrested, he has no right to silence, or to an attorney not provided by the military.
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Colonial troops were regularly used for imperial defense to include Indians in importance part of UK European operations of defense and neighboring European conflict ie) France and Germany and many European conflicts. Other reasons are there were clashes in neighboring colonial areas between European conflicts that lead to power struggles.
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