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    A paramilitary is a military that is not part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the use of the term...
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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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    United States Central Intelligence Agency responsible for covert and paramilitary operations. The unit was named Special Activities Division (SAD) prior...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • National Socialist paramilitary ranks were pseudo-military titles, which were used by the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP)...
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    [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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  • Right-wing paramilitary groups in Colombia (Spanish: paramilitares de derecha) are paramilitary groups acting in opposition to revolutionary Marxist–Leninist...
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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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    and Normalization of Paramilitary Units, surveyed police departments nationwide and found that their deployment of paramilitary units had grown tenfold...
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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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    GAL (Spanish: Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación, "Antiterrorist Liberation Groups") were death squads illegally established by officials of the Spanish...
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  • This article related to a paramilitary organization or suspected paramilitary organization is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it....
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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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  • Shabiha (redirect from Syrian paramilitary)
    considered shabiha were amalgamated into the National Defence Force and other paramilitary groups. The mercenaries consisted of mostly Alawite men paid by the regime...
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  • Dušan the Mighty (Serbian: Душан Силни, Dušan Silni) was a Serbian paramilitary unit formed in 1991. It was the armed wing of the Serbian National Renewal...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • (Hebrew: הַהֲגָנָה ha-Haganah, lit. 'The Defense') was the main Zionist paramilitary organization that operated for the Yishuv in the British Mandate for...
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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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  • (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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    abbreviated "LHI"), often known pejoratively as the Stern Gang, was a Zionist paramilitary militant organization founded by Avraham ("Yair") Stern in Mandatory...
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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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    citizens to create paramilitary forces. The peaceful exit of the Yugoslav army ended official encouragement for the formation of paramilitary forces. At the...
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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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