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Here is an updated link and an additional paper on the subject:Interestingly, Regimental Horse Platoons proved very useful in the United States Zone Constabulary for both patrol and search & seizure operations.
Back in 1964, a RAND paper predicted that the breeding of intelligent animals (apes, cetaceans, etc.) for low-grade labor would be possible by the year 2020. They also predicted possible uses for such animals in reconnaissance and other 'ground-combat tasks'.
http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2011/8/17/super-intelligent-ape-chauffeurs-by-the-year-2020.html
A link to the mentioned RAND paper can be found here: http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,8219.msg186080.html#msg186080
It also means that their handler abusing them gets charges not of animal cruelty, but of assaulting a superior.
Those look like African Cape Buffalo, which are some of the meanest creatures on God's green earth!Here in Brazil, we have an elite unit for jungle warfare.
The Amazon rainforest is one of the most inhospitable places on human life, making even the most dense tropical forests appear fields and prairies. Highly humid and hot, soggy terrain, difficult and preclude the use of transportation vehicles. Only the canoe and helicopters can be used there.
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CIGS - Buffalo Project
Hiram Reis e Silva, Itacoatiara, AM, January 3, 2011. (remained snipped for space)