A paramilitary is a military that is not a part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the use of the...
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India maintains 10 paramilitary forces. From 1986 to 2011 the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) were considered as Central Police Organisations (CPOs)...
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Paramilitary police could mean any of the following: a gendarmerie a constabulary a police tactical unit, such as a SWAT an auxiliary non-government paramilitary...
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Special Activities Center (redirect from Paramilitary Operations Officers)
United States Central Intelligence Agency responsible for covert and paramilitary operations. The unit was named Special Activities Division (SAD) prior...
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This is a list of countries by number of military and paramilitary personnel. It includes any government-sponsored soldiers used to further the domestic...
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E Squadron (redirect from SIS/MI6 Paramilitary)
formerly the Increment, is a British paramilitary unit tasked with conducting covert operations, paramilitary operations and others at the behest of...
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Ulster loyalism (redirect from Loyalist paramilitaries)
heritage. During the Home Rule Crisis (1912–14), loyalists founded the paramilitary Ulster Volunteers to prevent Ulster from becoming part of a self-governing...
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The following is a list of paramilitary organisations. General Service Unit (Kenya) Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) Avengers of Blood Special Mobile Force...
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Right-wing paramilitarism in Colombia (redirect from Paramilitary Forces of Colombia)
Right-wing paramilitary groups in Colombia (Spanish: paramilitares de derecha) are paramilitary groups acting in opposition to revolutionary Marxist–Leninist...
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National Socialist paramilitary ranks were pseudo-military titles, which were used by the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP)...
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Partisan (military) (redirect from Paramilitary partisan)
[citation needed] On 28 October 1922, Benito Mussolini and his fascist paramilitary troops, the Blackshirts, marched on Rome, seized power, and the following...
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The Scorpions (Serbian Cyrillic: Шкорпиони) were a Serb paramilitary unit active during the Yugoslav Wars. The unit was involved in war crimes during the...
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Weimar paramilitary groups were militarily organized units that were formed outside of the regular German Army following the defeat of the German Empire...
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SWAT (redirect from Police paramilitary unit)
and Normalization of Paramilitary Units, surveyed police departments nationwide and found that their deployment of paramilitary units had grown tenfold...
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The Stewards, also informally referred to as Blackshirts, were the paramilitary wing of the British Union of Fascists (BUF). They served a similar role...
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Paramilitary Marine Regiment, Royal Thai Navy or Thahan Phran Marines (Thai: กรมทหารพรานนาวิกโยธิน กองทัพเรือ) is a Thahan Phran marines paramilitary...
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republican paramilitaries such as the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA); loyalist paramilitaries such as...
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Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten (redirect from Stahlhelm paramilitary)
Ebert, Der Stahlhelm ex-servicemen's organization was meant to form a paramilitary organization. The league was a rallying point for revanchist and nationalistic...
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approximate troop strength per hierarchical unit). In some countries, paramilitary forces are included in a nation's armed forces, though not considered...
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GAL (Spanish: Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación, "Antiterrorist Liberation Groups") were death squads illegally established by officials of the Spanish...
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A fascist paramilitary is a fighting force - whether armed, unarmed, or merely symbolic - that is independent of regular military command and is established...
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Lobo (DC Comics) (redirect from The Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special)
parody; Blazing Chain of Love, in which he is sent on a job to a harem; Paramilitary Christmas Special, in which he is contracted by the Easter Bunny to assassinate...
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Serb Volunteer Guard (redirect from Serb Volunteer Guard (paramilitary))
The Serb Volunteer Guard was a Serbian volunteer paramilitary unit founded and led by Željko Ražnatović (better known as "Arkan"). It fought in the Croatian...
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(Albanian: Cakali, Serbian: Šakali, Serbian Cyrillic: Шакали) were a Serbian paramilitary group that operated during the Kosovo War in 1999. On 14 May 1999, 41...
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Mann (English: "man" or "male"), was a paramilitary rank used by several Nazi Party paramilitary organizations between 1925 and 1945. The rank is most...
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Paramilitary forces of Pakistan can refer to any of the following: Civil Armed Forces Punjab Rangers Sindh Rangers Frontier Corps Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (North)...
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The following is a list of defunct paramilitary organizations. The New Guard of Australia The Heimwehr of the Fatherland Front in Austria The Ostmärkische...
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MVSN (section Paramilitary organizations)
Italian Fascist paramilitary groups Milice de Volontaires de la Sécurité Nationale, better known as the Tonton Macoute, a Haitian paramilitary force created...
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attacks have been carried out by Ulster loyalist and Irish republican paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland. Attacks can range from a warning or expulsion...
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