As the nature of warfare changes, favoring urban combat and regional conflicts rather than conventional combat, the military is gaining a great deal of interest in less-lethal weapons.

随着战争性质的变化，常规性战斗向城市巷战和地区性冲突倾斜。

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The Defence Scientific Advisory Council's sub-committee on the Medical Implications of Less Lethal Weapons (DOMILL), an independent group of medical experts, has issued four statements on the medical implications of the use of the Taser.

BBC: Q&A: The Taser electric stun gun

In the end, less-lethal weapons don't mean police use less force, according to Chris Stone, a criminal justice professor at Harvard who worked on the Stern report.

NPR: Training Faulted in Death by 'Non-Lethal' Weapon

In this country, many police departments dealing with crowd control are embracing so-called less-lethal weapons.

NPR: Training Faulted in Death by 'Non-Lethal' Weapon