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Home Guard is a title given to various military organizations at various times, with the implication of an emergency or reserve force raised for local defense. [1]

31 relations: American Civil War, Boeitai, Civil Guard, Confederate Home Guard, Croatian Home Guard, Estonian Defence League, Home Army, Home Guard (Denmark), Home Guard (India), Home Guard (New Zealand), Home Guard (Sweden), Home Guard (Union), Home Guard (United Kingdom), Home Guard potato, Landwehr, Latvian National Guard, Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces, Military reserve force, Militia, Norwegian Home Guard, Omakaitse, Ordenanças, Shannara, Slovene Home Guard, Sri Lanka Civil Security Force, State defense force, Territorial Defence Force (Poland), Territorial Forces (Finland), United States Guards, Volkssturm, Wachdienst.

American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Boeitai

The Boeitai was a Japanese "home guard" force of World War II.

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Civil Guard

Civil Guard refers to various policing organisations.

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Confederate Home Guard

The Home Guard was any of several loosely organized militias in various states that were under the direction and authority of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.

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Croatian Home Guard

Croatian Home Guard may refer to several historic military formations.

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Estonian Defence League

The Estonian Defence League (Eesti Kaitseliit) is the name of the unified paramilitary armed forces of the Republic of Estonia.

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Home Army

The Home Army (Armia Krajowa;, abbreviated AK) was the dominant Polish resistance movement in Poland, occupied by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, during World War II.

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Home Guard (Denmark)

The Danish Home Guard (Hjemmeværnet) (HJV) is the fourth service of the Danish military, it was formerly concerned only with the defence of Danish territory, but since 2008, it has also supported the Danish military efforts in Afghanistan and Kosovo.

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Home Guard (India)

The Indian Home Guard is an Indian paramilitary police force.

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Home Guard (New Zealand)

The Home Guard was a wartime armed service during World War II that was established with the primary objective of defending New Zealand from the threat posed by the Empire of Japan.

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Home Guard (Sweden)

The Home Guard – National Security Forces (Hemvärnet – Nationella skyddsstyrkorna) is a military reserve force of the Swedish Armed Forces.

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Home Guard (Union)

In the American Civil War the Home Guard or Home Guards were local militia raised from Union loyalists.

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Home Guard (United Kingdom)

The Home Guard (initially Local Defence Volunteers or LDV) was a defence organisation of the British Army during the Second World War.

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Home Guard potato

Home Guard is a potato variety grown mainly in Ireland.

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Landwehr

Landwehr, or Landeswehr, is a German language term used in referring to certain national armies, or militias found in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe.

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Latvian National Guard

The Latvian National Guard or NG (Latvijas Republikas Zemessardze or ZS) is a part of the Latvian National Armed Forces.

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Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces

The National Defence Volunteer Forces or NDVF (Krašto apsaugos savanorių pajėgos (KASP), previously Savanoriškoji krašto apsaugos tarnyba (SKAT)) is an important part of the Lithuanian Armed Forces.

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Military reserve force

A military reserve force is a military organisation composed of citizens of a country who combine a military role or career with a civilian career.

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Militia

A militia is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional soldiers, citizens of a nation, or subjects of a state, who can be called upon for military service during a time of need, as opposed to a professional force of regular, full-time military personnel, or historically, members of a warrior nobility class (e.g., knights or samurai).

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Norwegian Home Guard

The Norwegian Home Guard (Heimevernet – "HV"), is a rapid mobilisation force in the Norwegian military.

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Omakaitse

The Omakaitse ('home guard') was a militia organisation in Estonia.

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Ordenanças

The Ordenanças (meaning literally "Ordinances" in Portuguese and sometimes misspelled Ordenanzas in English language literature) were a militia-type traditional military territorial organization that existed in Portugal and in some parts of the Portuguese Empire (especially in Brazil), between the 16th and the 19th centuries.

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Shannara

Shannara is a series of high fantasy novels written by Terry Brooks, beginning with The Sword of Shannara in 1977 and continuing through The Black Elfstone which was released in June 2017; there is also a prequel, First King of Shannara.

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Slovene Home Guard

The Slovene Home Guard (Slovensko domobranstvo; Slowenische Landeswehr) was a Slovene military anti-Partisan organization during the 1943-1945 German occupation of the formerly Italian-occupied Province of Ljubljana.

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Sri Lanka Civil Security Force

The Sri Lanka Civil Security Force (Sinhala: සිවිල් අාරක්ෂක බලකාය Sivil ārakshaka balakāya; Tamil: இலங்கை சிவில் பாதுகாப்பு) (also known as the Civil Defence Force) is a paramilitary militia tasked to serve as an auxiliary to the Sri Lanka Police.

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State defense force

State defense forces (SDF; also known as state military, state guards, or state military reserves) in the United States are military units that operate under the sole authority of a state government.

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Territorial Defence Force (Poland)

The Territorial Defence Force - TDF (Wojska Obrony Terytorialnej – WOT) is a Polish force made up of professional and part-time volunteer soldiers, forming part of the country's defence and deterrence system.

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Territorial Forces (Finland)

Territorial Forces, (Maakuntajoukot in Finnish) are regional forces of Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) composed of volunteer reservists who have signed a contract which obliges them to do certain tasks during a crisis.

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United States Guards

The United States Guards were a formation of the National Army created to guard strategic installations and areas in order to free infantry regiments for war service in the First World War.

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Volkssturm

The Volkssturm ("people's storm") was a national militia established by Nazi Germany during the last months of World War II.

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Wachdienst

The Wachdienst (English: watch service) was a rural home guard organisation raised by the Third Reich in Germany during the last months of World War II, in 1945.

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Domobran, Domobrani, Domobranstvo, Home Army (disambiguation), Home Guards, Home guard, Home troops.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Guard

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