അർദ്ധസൈനികവിഭാഗം

ഘടനയും പരിശീലനവും പ്രവർത്തനവും ഒരു സാധാരണ സൈനിക വിഭാഗത്തിന്റെ പോലെ ആയിരിക്കുകയും എന്നാൽ ഒരു രാഷ്ടത്തിന്റെ ഔദ്യോഗിക സേനയുമായി ബന്ധമില്ലാതിരിക്കുകയും ചെയ്യുന്ന സൈനിക അർദ്ധ സൈനിക വിഭാഗങ്ങളെയാണ്‌ പാരാമിലിട്ടറി എന്ന പദത്താൽ അർത്ഥമാക്കുന്നത്.

വിവിധ രാജ്യങ്ങളിൽ ഔദ്യോഗികമായും അനൌദ്യോഗികമായും വിവിധ തരത്തിലുള്ള പാരാമിലിട്ടറികളുണ്ട്.  

Types
Depending on the standards used, "paramilitaries" may include:

 Irregular military forces: militias, guerrillas, insurgents, and so forth
 The auxiliary forces of a state's military: National Guard, Presidential Guard, Republican Guard
 Some kinds of police forces, such as auxiliary police
 Gendarmeries, such as Egyptian Central Security Forces and India's Central Reserve Police Force
 Border guards, such as Russia's Border Guard Service
 Security forces of ambiguous military status: Internal Troops, Railroad Guards or Railway troops
 Militarized law enforcement personnel, such as SWAT teams in the United States
Foreign volunteers
Youth Military Cadet Organisations, such as Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps

In the United Kingdom, the term is often restricted to armed groups involved in the Northern Ireland Troubles, such as the Ulster Volunteer Force or the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

 ഉദാഹരണങ്ങൾ 
 The Iraqi Volunteer Forces
 The Military Police (Brazil) 
 The Basij of Iran
 The Blackshirts of Fascist Italy
 The Central Intelligence Agency Special Activities Division in the United States
 The Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit of the Philippines
 The Department of Homeland Security-related agencies in the United States
 The Emergency Response Team (RCMP) of Canada
 The Fedayeen Saddam of Ba'athist Iraq
 The GSG-9 of Germany
 The Kuva-yi Milliye, Jandarma and Village Guards of Turkey
 The Mobile Brigade (Indonesia) of Indonesia
 The National Task Force of Sweden
 The Rangers of Pakistan
 The Patriotic Guards of The Socialist Republic of Romania
 The People's Armed Police of People's Republic of China
 The Special Assault Team of Japan
 the Scout Ranger Regiment of the Philippines
 The Special Task Force of Sri Lanka
 The Spetsnaz of Russia
 The State Defense Forces of individual states in the United States
 The SWAT units of some law enforcement agencies in the United States
 The SA, SS, SS-Gestapo, Waffen-SS and Hitler Youth of Nazi Germany
 The Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
 The Dignity Battalions of Panama
 The Paramilitary forces of India
 The Indo-Tibetan Border Police
 The Border Security Force of India
 List of Serbian paramilitary formations
 ഇതും കാണുക 

 :Category:Rebel militia groups
 Weimar paramilitary groups
 List of Serbian paramilitary formations
 Militarization of police
 Panamanian Public Forces
 Fourth-generation warfare
 Private army
 Death squad
 Violent non-state actor
 List of countries by number of military and paramilitary personnel

 അവലംബങ്ങൾ 

 കൂടുതൽ വായനയ്ക്ക് 
 Golkar, Saeid. (2012) Paramilitarization of the Economy: the Case of Iran's Basij Militia, Armed Forces & Society, Vol. 38, No. 4
 Golkar, Saeid. (2012). Organization of the Oppressed or Organization for Oppressing: Analysing the Role of the Basij Militia of Iran. Politics, Religion & Ideology, Dec., 37–41. doi:10.1080/21567689.2012.725661
 Mexico's Plan to Create a Paramilitary Force

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 Global Security

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