"Gendarms" for Peacekeeping

Responding to criticism that troops shouldn't be peacekeepers, the State Dept. is looking to France as a model for future wars, according to this article. Hmmm:

Because peace-keeping and nation-building requirements have increased since the early 1990s, an alternative to combat military forces is needed to handle stabilization and reconstruction tasks as well as to conduct standard military operations against combatants, according to two scholars with the National Defense University (NDU).

...A model for such a unit could come from Europe, the authors suggested, where several governments of the European Union (EU), particularly France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain, are "drawing on long-standing paramilitary national police forces," to create a multinational European Gendarmeria Force (EGF).
France, which has a national force of 101,000 gendarmerie, will furnish 600 troops to the new 2,150- member unit. In Africa, the French gendarmerie gained valuable experience conducting peace operations in Western Sahara, Somalia and Rwanda.

This may work, unless the troops come from Europe, or worse, the UN!