Word: militiaization
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...broad outline, the shape of China's Red army has become familiar to Pentagon observers and others. Altogether, Communist armed forces number about 5,000,000. More than 2,000,000 men serve in the regular army; the remainder are local militia and auxiliary troops...
Queen Victoria had strong views about almost everything-especially actresses. She once said: "Any gentleman wishing to become an officer in my Household troops will not be eligible if he marries a woman on the stage." George Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, a 20-year-old militia officer who wanted a commission in The Blues, thus hesitated to wed pretty Actress Eva Raines...
...only Catholic bishop in the world (besides the Pope) with his own private army: two battalions of regular troops, five battalions of militia. His cathedral enclosure includes an army barracks. Adjoining the priests' quarters is a small factory for making grenades, mortar bombs and grenade throwers. The two bishops are temporal as well as spiritual rulers over a principality of 1,070 square miles and 2,600,000 population, of whom one-quarter are Catholics, the rest mostly Buddhists. The flat skyline of the two bishoprics is spiked by the tall spires of no less than 650 churches...
...black peasant garb. He was blond, blue-eyed, wore the beard often seen among French troops. He saluted, told me that he was a French noncommissioned officer in charge of a small detachment of Vietnamese militia. Theoretically they are uniformed troops, but so far the uniform doesn't go much beyond a floppy bush hat and an armband. At another place I saw men building one of those Beau Geste forts which dot the delta. They were using salvaged bricks, mortared with mud. When the lookout tower is high enough they will face it with a thin layer...
...face, U.M.T. was an appealing idea. At less cost and without the disruption caused by maintaining big standing armies, the nation would presumably get a militia, ready to spring to arms at a moment's notice. But the program as constituted would not have accomplished this, even in peacetime 1947, when it was first laid before Congress...