Word: militiaization
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...such a good job of clubbing the opposition that he was put in charge of II Duce's own territory. When the Quadrumvirate marched on Rome, one of those quadrumvirs was 26-year-old Italo Balbo, his black shirt sporting the insignia of a lieutenant-general of Fascist militia...
...former president, now chair-man of the board, wired Texas from Manhattan reducing the posted price of crude oil at East Texas wells from 50? to 10? a barrel, the same low reached nine months ago before the Governors of Oklahoma and Texas shut down the oil fields with militia. Reason for the latest cut: a new proration ruling by Texas increasing the allowable production of the East Texas pool from 400,000 to nearly...
...same day on Mount Scifarello in Calabria 400 mi. to the south, rangers of the Fascist Forest Militia ended a search for a French Air-Orient liner which disappeared last fortnight en route from Corfu, Greece to Rome. The rangers found two men and a woman, nearly dead of cold, huddled in the snow-covered wreckage of the plane which also sheltered the bodies of the two pilots, three other passengers...
...Order the regulars to the rear at the outbreak of war to train a citizen army and throw the militia immediately into the first fighting line. Explained General Hagood: "This is the manner in which the Confederate Army used the regular army officers it got at the outbreak of the Civil War. It is the plan recommended for future wars by Grant in his memoirs. It is the plan the British wished they'd had after they lost the flower of their army in the first few battles in France...
...Reorganize the General Staff into five categories: Administration, Supply, Tactics. Militia, Air Corps. All military functions would be consolidated under these five heads...