Paramilitary Forces

A paramilitary organization (also listed as quasi military) is a semi-militarized force whose organizational structure, tactics, training, subculture, and (often) function are similar to those of a professional military, but is not formally part of a country's armed forces.

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NYU: New York University · 4 October 2024 English

Federal legislation, like the Preventing Private Paramilitary Activity Act, offers a pathway to disrupt unlawful militia activity while safeguarding constitutional rights. The post The Threat from Unlawful Private Militias Has …


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 26 September 2024 English

Political leaders make policy choices which are often hard to explain via institutions. We use the behavior of Colombian paramilitary groups as an environment to study non-institutional sources of variation …

historical evidence on the emergence of paramilitary forces across the country discussed in detail in a relative absence of either military or paramilitary forces initially, it might be advantageous to place


USSC: United States Studies Centre · 25 September 2024 English

US strength.2 Furthermore, the first US National Both the United States and Australia have made Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS), released in Jan- deterring coercion in the Indo-Pacific the focus of …

require multi-domain military, coast guard and paramilitary forces rou- sensors to find and track targets and


ACSS: Africa Center for Strategic Studies · 20 September 2024 English

The spike in African displacement over the past year is mostly attributed to the conflict in Sudan. [...] DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO 8,023,000 Congolese forcibly displaced 881,000 increase (12% …

civilians by the Malian military and Russian paramilitary forces. The 1,250 fatalities inflicted on civilians


Wilson Center Canada · 18 September 2024 English

The conditions the possibility that the KGB arranged the pogroms of the deportation were deplorable: people were to show the Uzbek authorities that the locals could moved by trucks and …

their original homeland, Worse, Cossack paramilitary forces recruited by former Ottoman lands now governed


CIC: Center on International Cooperation · 10 September 2024 English

NYU Center on International Cooperation | July 2024 | 6 Glossary Recovery and The RPBA is a joint approach of the UN, the World Bank, and the Peacebuilding European Union …

interests of the Sudanese army and the main paramilitary forces were also threatened by developments on the


Heritage Foundation · 9 September 2024 English

As the China–Russia strategic partnership— which conducted a joint exercise in the South China Sea in July—continues to evolve, it is clear that China still has options to pursue in …

maritime services that confront China’s paramilitary forces daily. Emblematic of such activities was


Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy · 3 September 2024 English

It radical political, social, cultural, society members to address introduces and assesses some and religious ideologies and intolerance and hatred when it of the measures Pakistan has groups.”5 The Pakistani …

foreign funding for CVE initiatives. Pakistani paramilitary forces in the Khyber Agency tribal area in March are presented to the media by Pakistani paramilitary forces at a security compound in the Jamrud area


UN: The United Nations · 28 August 2024 English

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2023, the conflict between the army and paramilitary forces in the Sudan escalated, displacing millions


EU: European Union · 26 August 2024 English

The purpose of this report is to provide contextual information of relevance to the assessment of applications for international protection, including refugee status and subsidiary protection, and to the development …

Additionally, under IRGC 450 000 Basij paramilitary forces operate.112That number can rise up to 600


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