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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a militia force" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a group of individuals organized for military or defense purposes, often in a local or community context.
Example: "The local community formed a militia force to protect their town during the unrest."
Alternatives: "a paramilitary group" or "a volunteer defense unit".
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In Baghdad a senior Shia politician, whose own party has started arming and equipping a militia force of its own, said that he feared the Shia were becoming as radical as the enemy they were fighting.
In January the regime began a recruitment drive for the "Lionesses for National Defense," a militia force deploying women volunteers to carry out security operations, control checkpoints and free up soldiers to fight, Free Syrian Army commanders said.
The influence of the armed forces, including a militia force believed to number more than 120,000, reflects the efforts of Mr. Chávez, a former soldier who led a failed coup attempt in 1992, to imbue society with military ideals.
For over two centuries there was a consensus that the Second Amendment protected only the right of individuals to "keep and bear Arms" in order to take part in defending their liberties as a militia force.
Another faction, called Muhammad's Army, is believed by American intelligence to be composed primarily of former Baath Party officials, regular military officers and fighters from the Saddam Fedayeen, a militia force that was headed by Uday Hussein.
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South of Baghdad, at the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala, and outside the smaller center of Kufa, which borders Najaf, American forces continued to build up for a possible strike into the cities to dislodge a rebel militia force led by a 31-year-old Shiite cleric, Moktada al-Sadr.
In Baquba last Sunday, American forces ejected a Shiite militia force from a municipal building the group had seized about 50 miles northeast of Baghdad.
The victory of a largely militia force over British regulars was a boost to the Americans' morale.
Tim "Nailer" Foley, a bright-eyed, wiry, ex-soldier and founder of the Arizona Border Recon paramilitary group and Dr Jose Mireles, or "El Doctor", a charismatic, moustachioed physician leading the Autodefensas, a citizen militia force taking on the Knights Templar cartel in Michoacán, Mexico.
Tim "Nailer" Foley, a bright-eyed, wiry, ex-soldier, and founder of the Arizona Border Recon paramilitary group and Dr. Jose Mireles, or "El Doctor," a charismatic, mustachioed physician leading the Autodefensas, a citizen militia force taking on the Knights Templar cartel in Michoacán, Mexico.
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