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Paramilitaries

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loyalistnounA person who is loyal to a cause, generally used as a political affiliation.
militiasnounAn army of trained civilians, which may be an official reserve army, called upon in time of need, the entire able-bodied population of a state which may also be called upon, or a private force not under government control.
paramilitarynounA group of civilians trained and organized in a military fashion, but which do not represent the formal forces of a sovereign power.
militiamennoun
militianounAn army of trained civilians, which may be an official reserve army, called upon in time of need, the entire able-bodied population of a state which may also be called upon, or a private force not under government control.
militantsnounAn entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological faction.
militariesnounArmed forces.
militesnounthe trained regular footsoldiers of ancient Rome, and later a term used to describe "soldiers" in Medieval Europe.
militarizedissued military arms
guerrillasnouna 1975 novel by V. S. Naipaul.
soldiersnounA soldier is a thin strip of toasted bread, reminiscent of a soldier on parade.
insurgentsnounOne of several people who take up arms against the local state authority; a participant in insurgency.
armed forcesnounThe military forces of a nation, such as the army, navy, air force, marines, and sometimes, coastguard or border guard, which are tasked with the defence of the nation and its citizens, if necessary through use of deadly force.
republican guardA republican guard, sometimes called a national guard, is a state organization of a country (often a republic, hence the name Republican) which typically serves to protect the head of state and the government, and thus is often synonymous with a presidential guard.
special forcesnounElite military forces engaged in special operations such as guerrilla warfare or counterterrorism.
guerillasnounObsolete spelling of guerrilla, now a misspelling. [A soldier in a small independent group, fighting against the government or regular forces by surprise raids.]
gendarmesnounA member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties.
grenadiersnounGrenadiers or rattails are generally large, brown to black gadiform marine fish of the subfamily Macrourinae, the largest subfamily of the family Macrouridae.
militarisenounNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of militarize. [To give a military character to something, such as government or organization.]
vigilantesnounA person who acts outside of legal authority, often violently, to punish or avenge a crime, right a perceived wrong, etc.

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