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Contents
1 Legality 2 Types
2.1 Examples of paramilitary units
3 See also 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External links
Legality[edit] Under the law of war, a state may incorporate a paramilitary organization or armed agency (such as a national police, a private volunteer militia) into its combatant armed forces. The other parties to a conflict have to be notified thereof.[2] Though a paramilitary is not a military force, it is usually equivalent to a military's light infantry force in terms of intensity, firepower, and organizational structure. A paramilitary may also commonly fall under the command of a military, even despite not being part of the military or play an assisting role for the military in times of war. Types[edit] Depending on the standards used, "paramilitaries" may include:
Irregular military
Irregular military forces: militias, guerrillas, insurgents,
terrorists, and so forth
The auxiliary forces of a state's military: National Guard,
Presidential Guard, Republican Guard, State Guard, Home Guard, Royal
Guard, and Imperial Guard
Some police forces, such as police
SWAT
SWAT Teams, or auxiliary police and
Indonesia's Mobile Brigade Corps (Brimob)
Gendarmeries, such as Egyptian
Central Security Forces
Central Security Forces and Russia's
National Guard
Border guards, such as Russia's Border Guard Service, Australian
Border Force and India's Border Security Force
The United States' Federal Protective Forces,
Some fire departments, including the U.S. Fire Department
Security forces of ambiguous military status: internal troops,
railroad guards or railway troops
Semi-militarized law enforcement personnel, such as
SWAT
SWAT teams in the
United States and a number of other countries
Foreign volunteers
Youth
Military
Military Cadet Organisations, such as Junior Reserve Officers'
Training Corps, Bangladesh National Cadet Corps
In the
United Kingdom
United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, the term is often
restricted to the various armed groups involved in the Northern
Ireland Troubles, such as the
Ulster Volunteer Force
Ulster Volunteer Force or the
Provisional Irish Republican Army.
Volunteer Defense Corps (Thailand)
Examples of paramilitary units[edit]
List of paramilitary organizations List of defunct paramilitary organizations
See also[edit]
Military
Military history portal
Category:Rebel militia groups Weimar paramilitary groups List of Serbian paramilitary formations Militarization of police Panamanian Public Forces Fourth-generation warfare Private army Death squad Violent non-state actor
References[edit]
^ "paramilitary".
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed.). Oxford
University Press. June 2011 [online edition; original published in
June 2005]. Retrieved 2011-09-13. Designating, of, or relating to a
force or unit whose function and organization are analogous or
ancillary to those of a professional military force, but which is not
regarded as having professional or legitimate status.
^ "Customary IHL - Section B. Incorporation of paramilitary or armed
law enforcement agencies into armed forces". Icrc.org. Retrieved
2013-07-27.
Further reading[edit]
Golkar, Saeid. (2012) Paramilitarization of the Economy: the Case of
Iran's Basij Militia, Armed Forces & Society, Vol. 38, No. 4
Golkar, Saeid. (2012). Organization of the Oppressed or Organization
for Oppressing: Analysing the Role of the Basij
Militia
Militia of Iran.
Politics, Religion & Ideology, Dec., 37–41.
doi:10.1080/21567689.2012.725661
Mexico's Plan to Create a
Paramilitary
Paramilitary Force
External links[edit]
Look up paramilitary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Human Rights Watch, Colombia and Military-
Paramilitary
Paramilitary Links
Global Security
List o