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[Star Wars] Do Anakin and the other younglings qualify as child soldiers?

 When we first see Anakin jump into the cockpit and take out a bunch of droids he did all of that on his own. So no one really sent him off to be a child soldier.  However, at a certain point a padawon starts to go out on dangerous missions with his master and combat becomes a real possibility. So is the Jedi counsel making use of child soldiers?
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If you think of the Jedi as soldiers and warmongering cultists bent on subverting the galaxy to their will, sure.  From a certain point of view, you wouldn't even be wrong.

But the Jedi are diplomats.  Negotiators.  First and foremost, they are peacekeepers.  By definition, that means going to worlds and cities where tensions are high between two groups of people, one of whom is absolutely planning to sabotage the whole thing.  And as per their way of doing things, they bring younglings along (who, while young, are exceptionally more dangerous than they let on) to get first-hand field experience.  And sometimes, as part of that field experience, things go sideways.  Violently.

Hardly ordering them to take a hill or clear a building full of enemies.