Armed Arab volunteers during the 1947 – 1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine | 1947-1948 civil war in the British Mandate of Palestine

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.

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.

While President Truman had begun the process of desegregating the Armed Forces in 1948, actual implementation had been slow.

The Ecuadorian Armed Forces has provided Military Observers and troops to the United Nations since 1948.

The Syrian Armed Forces fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War ( against Israel ), and were involved in a number of military coups.

In 1948, Carlos Prio was assisted by Chief of the Armed Forces General Genobebo Pérez Dámera and Colonel José Luis Chinea Cardenas, who had previously been in charge of the Province of Santa Clara.

Rajagopalachari with Defence Minister Baldev Singh and the chiefs of Staffs of Indian Armed Forces in 1948

In this position, she sponsored and ensured the passage of the Women's Armed Services Integration Act, a bill to regularize the status of women in the armed forces that was signed into law by President Truman in June 1948.

Stanisław Józef Bronisław Kasznica ( July 25, 1908-May 12, 1948 ) was the last commander of the National Armed Forces ( NSZ ), an anti-communist, and anti-Nazi paramilitary organization, which was part of the Polish resistance movement in World War II and in the period following it.

Pablo and Ernest Mandel were instrumental in these years in winning the Fourth International to a position that asserted that the Eastern European states conquered by the Soviet Armed Forces in 1944-45 had by 1948 become what they described as deformed workers ' states.

In 1948 Congress passed the Women's Armed Forces Integration Act, which authorized women to enlist in the military alongside men, rather than in their own separate units, although women were still not allowed to serve in combat.

Citation started the 1948 racing season with two victories over older horse Armed, who had been named Thoroughbred racing's 1947 Horse of the Year, in an allowance race and the Seminole Handicap.

The Liaquat Ali Khan's government failure to Indian-held Kashmir had frustrated the military leaders of the Pakistan Armed Forces in 1948, including Jinnah himself serious doubt on Ali Khan's ability to ensure the integrity and sovereignty of Pakistan.

He became commandant of the Armed Forces Staff College at Norfolk, Virginia, in August 1946 and remained in that position until he retired June 30, 1948.

In 1948, González Videla also learned of a plot by some members of the Armed Forces to lead a coup against him and install Carlos Ibáñez as president.

* Douglas Young ( Scottish lawyer ) ( born 1948 ), one of the founders of the British Armed Forces Federation

Operation Polo code name for The Hyderabad Police Action was a military operation in September 1948 in which the Indian Armed Forces invaded the State of Hyderabad and ended the rule of Nizam, annexing the state into the Indian Union.

Women became officially recognized as a permanent part of the armed forces with the passing of the Women's Armed Services Integration Act of 1948.

Afterwards, he became assistant to the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee from 1947 to 1948.

Scheele also inherited projects begun before 1941, whose formal implementation had been delayed by the war, including the transfer of the Interior Department's health bureau for American Indians ( 1954 ), the transfer of the Department of Defense's Armed Forces Medical Library ( 1956, renamed the National Library of Medicine ), and new programs to control water pollution ( 1948 ), ionizing radiation ( 1948 ), and air pollution ( 1955 ).

On 24 June 1948, Lowry Field was renamed Lowry Air Force Base as a result of the United States Air Force becoming a separate branch of the Armed Forces of the United States.

Although not the Commander of the TKR, Nasution gained experience in the role of Armed Forces Commander in September 1948 with the Madiun incident.

With the passage of the Women's Armed Services Integration Act ( Public Law 625 ) on June 12, 1948, women gained permanent status in the armed services.

On June 12, 1948 President Harry Truman signed the " Women's Armed Services Integration Act ", making it Public Law 80-625.

President Harry Truman integrated the Armed Forces and federal workplaces in 1948.