KDP's zone, mountain guerrillas are being trained to become soldiers in a regular standing army.
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Many have guns and are prepared to use them perhaps 10, 000 people in a country where the regular army is only a little larger than that.
As Hamas evolves from a guerrilla force into a semi-regular army, so its military posture has shifted from offence to defence.
In another Palestinian camp, outside Sidon, a port south of Beirut, where the regular Lebanese army dares not go, a bearded Sunni bomb-maker boasts of how many times he has travelled to Iraq to wage jihad.
This reform mandates the creation of a militia parallel to the regular army.
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Since that time, Judy has been a regular consultant working with the Army on a number of challenges that face its leaders and its fighting men and women.
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After years in the bush, the rebels are sick of fighting, horribly malnourished and surrendering in their thousands in the hope of a few bowls of maize porridge and a pay packet in the regular army.
The men, many of whom were unable to join the regular Army, played a vital role in guarding vulnerable installations.
According to the Third Geneva Convention itself (the one covering POWs), for a person to qualify as a POW and be accorded the treatment proscribed in said convention, that person must be affiliated (either regular army or militia meaning some sort of uniform) with a "High Contracting Power" (a state that was party to the convention but for argument's sake we'll say any state).
Also on Tuesday, a Taliban suicide bomb squad disguised as regular Afghan army troops stormed the strategic city of Khost, close to the border with Pakistan Tuesday, prompting a fierce six-hour battle with U.S. troops, local officials and the U.S. military said.
In fact, he had a defense consisting of at least five layers: the regular army, the Republican Guard, the Fedayeen, the secret police, and the insurgents.
France and the U.S. have poured money, equipment and training into Chad's regular army since the Cold War, building a bulwark that initially was designed to battle both communism and deter military adventurism of Col.
In 2011, a further reduction of 12, 000 was identified for the regular Army, as the government seeks to put greater emphasis on military reserves.
Dr Fox revealed that the regular army, which had escaped relatively unscathed with a reduction of only 7, 000 by 2015 (the year after it should cease combat operations in Afghanistan), would be cut by a further 5, 000 in 2015, and by 20% (from 101, 000 to 82, 000) by 2020.
At one polling station, we found a unit of Iraqi special forces - with noticeably better equipment than regular army soldiers - were in charge of security, searching everyone going in.
So a growing army of angry taxpayers must calculate their taxes twice, first the regular way, then the AMT way, and pay the higher.
The US claims that the forces it is training will be responsible for counterterror operations and regular police work, and therefore, it is wrong to say that Dayton is raising a Palestinian army.
To keep public opinion on his side, General Hillier made regular appearances on television accompanied by Afghan veterans, bringing him a level of fame previously unknown for an army officer in Canada.
He joined the TA 16 years ago after serving in the regular Army with the Coldstream Guards and Household Division from the age of 15, retiring as a senior drum major who led parades at prestigious events such as the Trooping of the Colour.
Prominent Pakistani commentator Zafar Hilaly, who was also on the show, reacted by saying that while the mutilation of anyone was a "reprehensible act", it was "utter rubbish" to suggest that the regular soldiers of the Pakistan Army were involved.
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