paramilitary organization
organized force, possibly armed, other than the regular military
Free Corps
volunteer military units in Europe
SS Main Economic and Administrative Office
Nazi organization responsible for managing the finances, supply systems and business projects for the Allgemeine-SS
Haganah
Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948.
Serbian Guard
Serbian paramilitary unit
Franc-Garde
military unit
Westland New Post
former Belgian extreme right-wing organisation
Branch Davidians
religious movement
Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party
socialist partisan organization fighting for Polish independence and socialism in early 20th century
Fruit of Islam
Paramilitary wing of the Nation of Islam
Knights of Ali
Lebanese Shia militia active during the Lebanese Civil War
Rodrigo Franco Command
Peruvian Death Squad in the government of Alan García (1985-1990)
Thunder Squad
paramilitary police unit of Taiwan
Socialist Action
Polish paramilitary organization
Special Mobile Force
paramilitary unit
Helsinki Red Guard
Finnish protection corps 1905–1907 and paramilitary organisation 1917–1918
Halcones
Mexican paramilitary group
Syrian National Army
armed forces of the Syrian Interim Government
National Squads
paramilitary in Ukraine
Russian people's militias in Ukraine
militias and armed volunteer groups affiliated with the Union of Novorossiya
Action squads
fascist paramilitary organizations active between 1919 and 1923
Organisation Todt
Third Reich civil and military engineering group
national guard
name used by a wide variety of current and historical uniformed organizations in different countries
Free Wales Army
Welsh nationalist organisation
Forest Brothers
resistance against the Soviet Union during and after World War II
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
Armenian nationalist militant organization active from 1975 to the early 1990s
Niger Movement for Justice
paramilitary organization in Niger
Young German Order
paramilitary organization in Weimar Germany
Democratic Army of Greece
military wing of the Communist Party of Greece during the Greek Civil War
Ministry of Public Security
secret police agency of Communist Poland
Official Irish Republican Army
former Irish republican paramilitary group
Special Organization
paramilitary organization in the Ottoman Empire
stay-behind
type of secret urban guerrilla warfare organization set for resisting an occupying army
Pro-Indonesia militia
militias loyal to the Indonesian government in East Timor, from 1999 to 2000
Irish Republican Army
1922-1969
Warriors of Christ the King
Spanish far-right paramilitary organization
Cornish National Liberation Army
Cornish nationalist paramilitary organisation
Red Shirts
Southern US paramilitary organization (post-Civil War)
Ulster Young Militants
UK organization
People's Guard (Libya)
part of Muammar Gaddafi's regime in Libya
Emergency Unit
unit of the Hong Kong Police Force
Committee of Bashkir Resistance
Armed nationalist organization in Bashkortostan
Schutzstaffel
Nazi paramilitary organization (1925–45) with the Waffen-SS as a military branch; conducted the mass murder of the European Jews (holocaust)
People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey
political party in Turkey
International Brigades
paramilitary supporting the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War
Irish Republican Army
Irish republican national liberation paramilitary organization
Military Organization Lizard Union
far-right Polish resistance organization during World War II
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
military organization to protect the political system of the Islamic Republic in Iran