Alma 27:11-15

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Questions

Did the Nephites share the Anti-Nephi-Lehis' willingness to die rather than kill an enemy?
Did living among the Nephites change the way the Anti-Nephi-Lehis felt about taking up arms?
What were the consequences of the Anti-Nephi-Lehi's joining up with the Nephites?
Why didn't the Lord include future generations of Anti-Nephi-Lehis among those who would be preserved (verse 12)?
What happened to future generations of the Anti-Nephi-Lehis that might have kept them from being preserved by the Lord?
When the Sons of Helaman were preserved in battle, was that because of their own righteousness, or because of this promise to their fathers?

In verse 12 the Lord clearly instructs Ammon to get the people out of the land. He doesn't specifically say to live with the Nephites (though it seems that that was the question Ammon took to the Lord (see verse 7)) but the Anti-Nephi-Lehis do end up living there. They end up later almost breaking their covenant (Alma 56:7) and their children end up joining the Nephites in battle. Unfortunately, it seems that at least many of their children end up apostasizing (see Hel 7:1-3). Note that in this verse, verse 12, the Lord promises only to preserve this generation. No such promise is given to future generations. It may be that had the children of the Anti-Nephi-Lehis taken and kept the same covenant their parents had taken, they may have avoided falling into the same cycle of unbelief and warfare that characterizes the history of Nephite society.