Word: militiaization
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...unit or piece of equipment in reserve." Most soldiers are on 18-hr, shifts. The army is not being used to suppress strikes or break up demonstrations. A tank may be used to burst through a factory gate or fire a warning shot, but it is the militia (police) who are left to do the dirty work...
...ragtag militia review served as an ominous end to what Paisley billed as a "day of action" in protest against Britain's failure to move more forcefully against the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Less than a week after Paisley's supporters had gathered in mourning for the Rev. Robert Bradford, a Member of Parliament slain on Nov. 14 by I.R.A. gunmen, many of Northern Ireland's Protestants walked off their jobs in a day of demonstrations that disrupted the region. Paisley led a motorcade to the Parliament buildings in Stormont, which until the early 1970s were...
...from Nicaragua, fan out across the nation in a truly impressive literacy effort, for example. And there seems a readiness to defend the revolution. When counterrevolutionaries (a particularly simpering, cowardly band of counterrevolutionaries) sneak across the border to murder one literacy brigadista, hundreds of men from the People's Militia volunteer to join the army in the eventually successful manhunt. Nicaraguans may not one and all love their new government, but there seem to be very few who are eager to return to anything like Somoza's rule...
...soldier to a metal detector's scan. No matter: the glory of re-created victory was undimmed. Over the sunny Virginia meadows marched 2,200 ersatz Revolutionaries. There were French infantry of the Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment in their gleaming white uniforms; authentically ragtag colonials, including the Barnstable Militia of Cape Cod, some in burlap and bandages; and, of course, 750 English redcoats and Hessians, gallant in their mock defeat...
...level of about 700 to 200 in the region south of the Litani River that is controlled by UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon). At the same time, Israel would remove all of its troops from the area controlled by Major Sa'ad Haddad's Christian militia, which has been working closely with the Israelis. Lebanese government forces would be allowed to take over this area and would absorb Haddad's fighters...