The precautions include having armed "guardian angels", such as the Australians who ended Saturday's attack, watch over all meetings with Afghan counterparts.
The attacks, known as "green on blue" by the military, have become such a commonplace threat that some foreign units are watched by armed "guardian angels" from their own ranks.
Ostap Semerak, an MP, told the Guardian that heavily armed operatives from the SBU secret services arrived at the party headquarters and entered through the windows "like pirates or terrorists", before taking away computer servers.
Some of the armed men admitted to the Guardian that they came from Crimea, and the sentiment among locals was both celebratory and suspicious, Luke Harding reports: "Slavyansk residents who had been fearing an imminent attack from Ukrainian forces had a moment of cognitive dissonance.
Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Big Hero 6, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Boxtrolls, Maleficent, Noah, Exodus: Gods and Kings, Earth to Echo, The Good Lie, Million Dollar Arm and Guardians of the Galaxy all have themes of adoption or guardianship (although, as Gamora and Peter Quill can attest, the adoption stories weren't always positive).
With American assistance, several hundred armed Sunni volunteers called the Ghazaliya Guardians were gradually assuming police duties.
A local activist named Omar Halabi told the Guardian that protesters were "walking towards tanks armed only with wooden bats, steel bars, or stones".
At least 78 of Texas' 1,024 districts have other "school guardian" plans that allow some staff to be armed, although the school marshal program is much stricter.
"You're going to see them being used in domestic policing, border patrol, riot control, not just armed conflict," Steve Goose, director of Human Rights Watch's arms division, told the Guardian.
