What is "militias"

Usage examples of "militias".

In any sort of army people from the upper and middle classes will tend to get the positions of command -- this happened in the early Spanish militias and had also happened in the Russian Civil War -- and in a spare-time force the average working man cannot possibly find enough time to do the administrative routine of a platoon-commander or company-commander.

The reformed and expanded Port Authority militia, not the neighborhood militias controlled by the assemblies.

In the beginning the Home Guard was a heterogeneous force and structurally rather similar to the early Spanish militias, but it has been gradually brigaded on the lines of the regular army, and all the ordinary contingents are affiliated to the regiments belonging to the locality.

The Government militias were hurriedly raised, ill-armed and unimaginative in their military outlook, but they would have been the same if complete political agreement had existed from the start.

At the time, they were backing several different Afghan militias, but when the Taliban appeared and began to win battles, Islamabad was quick to embrace them as their new Afghan proxies.

Only the Kurdish militias can claim to speak for the Kurdish segment of the population.

On an imperial scale I was hoping to re-establish the equivalent of the militias of the early Republic, where each man was wont to defend his field or his farm.