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How can the pope preach peace behind an armed Swiss Guard?
In brief
The Vatican maintains a military unit of 135 Swiss Guards and a police force called the Gendarmerie.
Nathaniel Hunter reports that while the pope has no brigades or battalions, these forces exist within the Vatican.
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