A standing army is a permanent, often professional, army. It is composed of full-time soldiers who may be either career soldiers or conscripts. It differs...

have no standing armies but still have a non-police military force. Many of the 21 countries listed here typically have had a long-standing agreement...

maintain a peacetime standing army. Members of the British Army swear allegiance to the monarch as their commander-in-chief. The army is administered by...

organizations, etc. Regular military can also refer to full-time status (standing army), versus reserve or part-time personnel. Other distinctions may separate...

militias, private armies, mercenaries, etc. A regular army usually has the following: a standing army, the permanent force of the regular army that is maintained...

Standing Army is a 2010 documentary film about the global network of U.S. military bases, the impact that these have on local populations, and the military–industrial...

personnel. It is the largest standing army in the world, with 1,248,000 active troops and 960,000 reserve troops. The army has embarked on an infantry...

Russian Revolution of 1917. It was organized into a standing army and a state militia. The standing army consisted of regular troops and two forces that served...

Americans, it was soon considered necessary to field a trained standing army. The Regular Army was at first very small and after General St. Clair's defeat...

William (1620–1688, reigned 1640–1688), developed it into a viable standing army, while King Frederick William I of Prussia (1688–1740, reigned 1713–1740)...

standing armies. Following the ascension to power of the National Party, the Army's long-standing Commonwealth ties were cut. The South African Army was...

force that comprises civilian members, as opposed to a professional standing army of regular, full-time military personnel. Militias may be raised in...

of the conscripted and reserve components and increasing the active (standing army) component, changing from 60% support structure and 40% operational...

Federalist No. 46, Madison wrote how a federal army could be kept in check by the militia, "a standing army ... would be opposed [by] militia." He argued...

the standing army in Zhili, with the first of these, founded in October 1902, being a new formation known as the Left Division of the Beiyang Standing Army...

Special Unit of the National Police Commissioner. Iceland maintains no standing army, the only NATO member for which this is the case. The Coast Guard consists...

formed the Ottoman sultan's household troops. They were the first modern standing army, and perhaps the first infantry force in the world to be equipped with...

The New Model Army or New Modelled Army was a standing army formed in 1645 by the Parliamentarians during the First English Civil War, then disbanded...

Lordship of Schellenberg. Liechtenstein disbanded its army in 1868, and has had no standing army since. However, under the constitution of Liechtenstein...

date back to 1572, when the Staatse Leger was raised making the Dutch standing army one of the oldest in the world. It fought in the Napoleonic Wars, World...

and then Kingdom (1806–1918) of Bavaria. It existed from 1682 as the standing army of Bavaria until the merger of the military sovereignty (Wehrhoheit)...

April 19, 1775, at a time when the colonial revolutionaries had no standing army. Previously, each colony had relied on Patriot militias, which were...

During the Imjin War, Joseon mobilized few military units within a standing army. Its defense depended heavily on the mobilization of the citizen soldiers...

to be organised into a standing army (Changbei Jun) a first reserve (Xubei jun) and a gendarmerie (Xunjing jun). Standing army units were to gradually...

personal rule. English government was quite small, for the king had no standing army, and no bureaucracy stationed around the country. Laws were enforced...

fuse it with the army (the standing army to be replaced by the arming of the entire people)." At the time, the Imperial Russian Army had started to collapse...

the local militias to act; part of Alfred's reforms was to create a standing army that could react rapidly to attacks. The Anglo-Saxon rural population...

The compagnie d'ordonnance was the first standing army of late medieval and early modern France. The system was the forefather of the modern company....

be called out in certain cases, but may not be kept on service like standing armies, in times of peace'. . . when not engaged at stated periods . . . they...

innovations in military technology and tactics, including professional standing armies and artillery, that permanently changed European warfare. Chivalry...