Editing Black and Tans (section)

===Auxiliary Division===
During the war, the British government founded the [[Auxiliary Division]] of the RIC, which is sometimes conflated with the "Black and Tans".<ref name="warinpeace" /><ref name="harvey auxies">{{cite journal |last1=Harvey |first1=A.D. |title=Who were the Auxiliaries? |journal=The Historical Journal |date=1992 |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=665–669 |url=http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0018246X00026029 |access-date=29 December 2023}}</ref><ref name="Lowe" /><ref name="Leeson Wiki" /> Some British politicians also occasionally conflated them at the time, such as [[Winston Churchill|Churchill]], [[Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet|Henry Wilson]] and [[Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel|Herbert Samuel]].<ref name="Gannon formcomp" /> However, while the "Black and Tans" were regular constables, the Auxiliary Division was a [[paramilitary]] [[counterinsurgency]] force which was operationally independent and composed of former British military ''officers''.<ref>Leeson, ''The Black and Tans'', p. 30</ref><ref name="Gannon formcomp" /><ref name="Leeson Wiki" /><ref name="Gannon review of Herlihy" /> Thus, academic sources generally distinguish the Auxiliaries from the "Black and Tans".<ref name="Gannon formcomp" /><ref name="Herlihy B&T" /><ref name="Gannon review of Herlihy" /><ref name="Leeson Wiki" /> At least some of the crimes attributed to the Black and Tans were actually the work of the Auxiliaries.<ref>{{cite news |last=Spain |first=Adam |title=Review of 'The Black and Tans' by DM Leeson |newspaper=Irish Independent |date=17 September 2011 |url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/review-history-the-black-and-tans-by-dm-leeson-26772652.html |access-date=2015-11-29 |archive-date=8 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208175256/http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/review-history-the-black-and-tans-by-dm-leeson-26772652.html |url-status=live }}</ref>