Sentence examples for local armies from inspiring English sources

Soon afterward, Mr. Mohammad ordered the local armies to dissolve, the senior law enforcement official said.

Bitter experience has long recognized that only local armies can ultimately prevail in counterinsurgency operations.

5The figures for China comprise casualties of the Chinese Nationalist forces during 1937 45, as reported in 1946, and do not include figures for local armies and communists.

The Qing authorities had to rely on local armies, financed by the provincial and local gentry class, to combat the large popular uprisings.

With the assistance of US-led air strikes, these local armies may be able to stop Isis and even push it back a little.

The search for the former Taliban leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, continues, though the Americans seem to be pursuing it with more enthusiasm than any of the local armies.

It performs at ceremonial send-offs for local army recruits.

America will train and equip the local army and police.

Hakim el-Agouri, the local army commander in Al Maya.

Today, its people seem as fearful of the local army brigade as they are of insurgents.

It is also by far the most powerful local army in Somalia.