Language: Pushto
armed forces may be organized as standing forces eg regular army which describes a professional army that is engaged in no other profession than preparing for and engaging in warfare in contrast there is the citizen army a citizen army also known as a militia or reserve army is only mobilized as needed its advantage lies in the fact that it is dramatically less expensive in terms of wealth manpower and opportunity cost for the organizing society to support the disadvantage is that such a "citizens army" is less well trained and organized