When Nelson Mandela became president in 1994, the police were a paramilitary force.
The Border Security Patrol is a paramilitary force, and while some women joined simply as a way to earn money, others enlisted so they could escape the constraints of patriarchal family life.
"It should have been banned, not for its Nazi ideology but because it is a paramilitary force … who, if it could, would press ahead with a coup d'état," he told the Observer.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard is a paramilitary force answerable only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The National Defense Forces is a paramilitary force composed of civilians that was activated after the anti-government uprising broke out in March 2011.
Tur: The LAPD really was a paramilitary force and was so good at following orders, that when the LAPD ordered their officers to retreat during the riots, they all did.
American officials have said that soldiers are especially on edge because they are fighting a paramilitary force that slips unnoticed into the civilian population, launching assaults from school buildings, hospitals and other places that the United States generally will not attack.
