Only a tiny proportion of the time soldiers spend in the military is combat activity, in the sense of an army fighting an army. That's always been true. Quasi-policing and "peacemaking" is a much larger part of what soldiers are engaged in these days, and it deserves to be recognised as real soldiering that requires a great deal of expertise. I suspect that this is not adequately reflected in military training in many armies, notably the US.

(Pot and kettle, pdq.)