Sentence examples for local defense force from inspiring English sources

They are part of a loose-knit, meagerly armed, local defense force called the Arrow Boys.

The ship was assigned to the Karlskrona local defense force during 1913 18, and she was sold to the Gotland Cement Company in November 1919.

Etruria was stationed in Libya as part of the local defense force, which included the old ironclad battleships and, along with several smaller vessels.

"It was my friend in the local defense force who told me to leave my home after the peshmerga had already left".

He was talking about "local defense forces" the United States will be helping to set up in Afghanistan.

Previous efforts to raise local defense forces have failed, largely because of a lack of support in communities and from the government.

Some of these armed groups began as local defense forces, which then morphed into militias that plague the civilians they are supposedly protecting.

Zeng joined the local defense forces in his native Hunan province early in 1853, gradually shouldering more and more responsibility for the rebellion's suppression.

KABUL, Afghanistan — After intensive negotiations with NATO military commanders, the Afghan government on Wednesday approved a program to establish local defense forces that American military officials hope will help remote areas of the country thwart attacks by Taliban insurgents.

The first of the local defense forces are scheduled to begin operating early next year in Wardak Province, an area just outside the capital where the Taliban have overrun most government authority.

The three main rebel groups in the C.A.R. since Bozizé took power — the Popular Army for the Restoration of Democracy in the northwest, and the Union of Democratic Forces for Unity and the Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace in the northeast — began as informal local defense forces.