Private army
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A private army (or private military) is a military or paramilitary force consisting of armed combatants who owe their allegiance to a private person, group, or organization, rather than a nation or state.
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See also
- Academi, also known as Blackwater
- Mercenary
- Regular military forces whose allegiance is to one person or group.
- the armed branch of a political party within a nation
- Iraqi Peoples Army of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party
- Brownshirts of the German NSDAP
- Blackshirts of the Italian National Fascist Party
- National Liberation Army of the People's Mujahedin of Iran
- Phalangist militia of the Kataeb Party
- a paramilitary force
- a parapolice
- Irregular military forces: such as
- Range war
- Violent non-state actor
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