The Egyptian Armed Forces are the largest in Africa, and the Arab World, and is the 10th largest in the world, consisting of the Egyptian Army, Egyptian Navy, Egyptian Air Force and Egyptian Air Defense Command.

The Armed Forces of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya consisted of the Libyan Army, Libyan Air Force and the Libyan Navy and other services including the People's Militia.

The Syrian Arab Air Force (, Al Quwwat al-Jawwiyah al Arabiya as-Souriya ) is the Aviation branch of the Syrian Armed Forces.

Ambassador Goldberg told King Hussein that after taking into account legitimate Arab concerns and suggestions, the US would be willing to add the word " Israeli " before " Armed Forces " in first operative paragraph.

Armed militias known as the fedayeen grew from militant elements within the Arab Palestinians.

On 1 March 1956, the Legion was renamed as the Arab Army ( now Jordanian Armed Forces ).

The Egyptian Army is the largest service branch within the Egyptian Armed Forces, and is the largest army in the Arab World, and Africa.

Armed Arab volunteers in 1948

An additional approximately 25, 000 ill-equipped civilian volunteers and police forces also sided with the Pakistan Armed Forces.

Armed with shotguns and using guerrilla tactics similar to those of the FLN, the harkis, who eventually numbered about 180, 000 volunteers, more than the FLN effectives, were an ideal instrument of counterinsurgency warfare.

Volunteers for the SBS are now taken from all the British Armed Forces although volunteers still predominantly come from the Royal Marines.

Armed with these new urban warfare skills, the U. S. Army along with Texan, Mississippian, and Tennessee volunteers moved house to house, rooting out Mexican soldiers hiding on rooftops and inside the thick, adobe-walled houses of northern Mexico.

His force comprised three divisions of Armed Constabulary, Wellington Rangers, Wellington Rifles, Taranaki Volunteer Militia, Patea Yeomanry Cavalry and a number of unenlisted volunteers.

He sailed from Wanganui for Poverty Bay on 2 December with 212 Armed Constabulary, leaving Wanganui's defence in the hands of about 620 Imperial troops, Armed Constabulary and militia and volunteers.

At the end of October the forces – 1074 Armed Constabulary, almost 1000 volunteers from around New Zealand and up to 600 Taranaki volunteers, together outnumbering Parihaka adult males by four to one – gathered near Parihaka, the volunteers at Rahotu and the Armed Constabulary at Pungarehu, and began drills and target practice.

In the course of the war an estimated 70, 000 citizens of neutral Ireland served as volunteers in the British Armed Forces ( and another estimated 50, 000 from Northern Ireland, and this figure does not include Irish people who were resident in Britain before the war ( though many used aliases ).

Many Jews joined the British Armed Forces, including some 30, 000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine alone, some of whom fought in the Jewish Brigade.

Pun's name is inscribed on the roof of an arched memorial stand at the Memorial Gates, at Constitution Hill, London ( at the junction with Duke of Wellington Place, London SW1 ), along with other volunteers from the Indian subcontinent, Africa, and the Caribbean, who served with the Armed Forces during the First and Second World Wars and received the Victoria Cross or George Cross.

The SRR draws its personnel from existing units and can recruit volunteers from serving male and female members of all the United Kingdom's Armed Forces.

Throughout the period and during the movement operation, the Museum continued its functional support of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

The establishment or expansion of multiple United States Armed Forces installations added to the state economy and helped bridge the gap between an agricultural and industrial economy during the mid-20th century.

* 1981 – El Mozote massacre: Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War.

Senior members of the military can convene for the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, so during the course of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, when Mubarak resigned and transferred power to this body on February 11, 2011.

Like many college students who joined the Armed services during the war, he received a degree in absentia in 1918.

In October 2001, the United States armed forces and British Armed Forces provided massive air support to United Front ( Northern Alliance ) ground forces during Operation Enduring Freedom.

A team of chemists led by Louis Fieser at Harvard University was the first one to develop synthetic napalm, during 1942 for the U. S. Armed Forces.

One of the simplest plastic explosives was Nobel's Explosive No. 808, also known as Nobel 808 ( often just called Explosive 808 in the British Armed Forces during the Second World War ), developed by the British company Nobel Chemicals Ltd well before World War II.

The French Armenian Legion served as part of the French Armed forces during the war.

In 1998, the coalition played a critical role during the conception of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, an amendment to the Convention on the Rights of the Child ( CRC ).

According to Kevin Benson, the 10th director of the school, " The first ' official ' reference to the School of Advanced Military Studies ( SAMS ) graduates as Jedi Knights was on 12 May 1992 during a meeting of the Committee on Armed Services Military Education Panel in Washington D. C ." Congressman Ike Skelton stated, " we all know that the real stamp of approval came when General Schwarzkopf requested SAMS graduates, sometimes referred to as ' Jedi Knights ," be sent to his headquarters in Riyadh to assist in developing the campaign plan.

As head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( Supreme Command of the Armed Forces ) and de facto war minister under Adolf Hitler, he was one of Germany's most senior military leaders during World War II.

The Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( OKW ) ( English: " Supreme Command of the Armed Forces ") was part of the command structure of the armed forces ( Wehrmacht ) of Nazi Germany during World War II.

The OKW directed the operations of the German Armed Forces during World War II.

" Organization of the Secret Army " or " Secret Armed Organization ") was a short-lived, French dissident paramilitary organization during the Algerian War ( 1954 – 62 ).

Thousands of children were recruited and used by all sides during Sierra Leone ’ s conflict ( 1993 – 2002 ), including the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ), the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council ( AFRC ), and the pro-government Civil Defense Forces ( CDF ).

Frank Sinatra is interviewed on Armed Forces Radio Service during World War II.

* Armed resistance, in the form of sabotage, commando raids, assassinations and other special operations during the occupation

The first settlers came to the area after Congress passed the Armed Occupation Act of 1842 at the end of the Seminole Wars during the Administration of President John Tyler.

Of the town's population of about 400, around 150 men and boys served in the Armed Forces during the war.

The greater share of the political executions during the 21 years of Military Dictatorship ( 1964 – 1985 ) were done by the Brazilian Armed Forces itself.

Dietrich made several appearances on Armed Forces Radio Services shows like The Army Hour and Command Performance during the war years.

For countries which have signed the " Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts " ( Protocol I ), combatants who do not wear a distinguishing mark still qualify as prisoners of war if they carry arms openly during military engagements, and while visible to the enemy when they are deploying to conduct an attack against them.

The People's Armed Police ( 人民武装警察, Abbreviation: PAP ), officially Chinese People's Armed Police Force ( officially CAPF, ) is a paramilitary or gendarmerie force primarily responsible for civilian policing and fire rescue duties in the People's Republic of China, as well as provide support to PLA during wartime.