A militia is a military or paramilitary force composed of civilian members, as distinct from a professional standing army of regular, full-time military personnel. As an institution, a militia system raises such forces in times of need to support regular troops, or maintains them as a pool of available manpower for regular forces to draw from. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Militia systems have historically been organized and called up under the authority of local or national government, from the colonial American militia to Switzerland's citizen-army today.
The militia system, a citizen force mobilized for defense, is conventionally contrasted with and historically preceded the standing army as an alternative institutional model for organizing a state's armed forces.
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A militia is a military or paramilitary force that comprises civilian members, as opposed to a professional standing army of regular, full-time military personnel.
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A militia ( mil-ISH-ə) is a military or paramilitary force that comprises civilian members, as opposed to a professional standing army of regular, full-time military personnel.
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