/mɪˈlɪʃə/
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*a militia is generally an ‘army’ (or some other type of ‘fighting unit’) that is composed of ‘non-professional fighters’, ‘citizens’ of a ‘nation’, or ‘subjects’ of a ‘state’ or ‘government’ who can be called upon to enter a ‘combat situation’, as opposed to a ‘professional force’ of regular + full-time military personnel, or historically, members of a ‘warrior nobility class’ (EG ‘knights’ / ‘samurai’)*
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(it is common for ‘militias’ to engage in ‘guerrilla warfare’ or ‘defense’ instead of being used in ‘open attacks’ + ‘offensive actions’)
(with the emergence of ‘professional forces’ (in the form of ‘mercenaries’ whose ‘livelihood’ was ‘military service’) during the ‘renaissance’, ‘western european militias’ wilted; later however, they would be revived as part of ‘florentine civic humanism’, which held that ‘professional militaries’ were a result of ‘corruption’, and admired the ‘roman model’)
(the ‘civic humanist ideal’ of the ‘militia’ was spread through ‘europe’ by the writings of ‘niccolò machiavelli’)
(according to ‘hörnqvist’ (aka ‘the prince’ / chapters 12 + 13 / ‘discourses on livy’ + ‘the art of war’))
(beginning in the ‘late 20th century’, some ‘militias’ (in particular ‘officially recognized’ + ‘sanctioned militias’ of a ‘government’) act as ‘professional forces’, while still being “part-time” or “on-call” organizations)
(for instance, the members of some ‘U.S. srmy national huard’ units are considered ‘professional soldiers’, as they are trained to maintain the same standards as their “full-time” (or ‘active duty’) counterparts)
(‘militias’ thus can be ‘military’ or ‘paramilitary’, depending on the instance)
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(some of the contexts in which the term “militia” is used include…)
*forces engaged in ‘defense activity’ or ‘service’, to protect a ‘community’, its ‘territory’, ‘property’, and ‘laws’*
*the ‘entire able-bodied population’ of a ‘community’, ‘town’, ‘county’, or ‘state’, available to be ‘called to arms’*
*a subset of these who may be ‘legally penalized’ for failing to respond to a ‘call-up’*
*a ‘subset’ of these who actually respond to a ‘call-up’, regardless of ‘legal obligation’*
*a ‘private’ + ‘non-government’ force, not necessarily ‘directly supported’ or ‘sanctioned’ by its ‘government’*
*an ‘irregular armed force’ enabling its leader to exercise ‘military’, ‘economic’, and ‘political’ control over a ‘sub-national territory’ within a ‘sovereign state’)
(research ‘warlords’ for further clarification)
*an ‘official reserve army’ composed of ‘citizen soldiers’*
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(called by various names in different countries, such as the ‘army reserve’, ‘national guard’, or ‘state defense forces’)
(the ‘national police forces’ in several ‘former communist states’ (such as the ‘soviet union’ + the ‘warsaw pact’ countries), but also in the non-aligned SFR ‘yugoslavia’)
(the term was inherited in ‘russia’ and other former ‘CIS countries’, where they are known as “militsiya”)
(in ‘france’, the equivalent term “milice” has become ‘tainted’ due to its use by notorious collaborators with ‘nazi germany’)
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(a select militia is composed of a ‘small’ + ‘non-representative’ portion of the ‘population’, (often ‘politicized’))
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