When acting independently militias are generally unable to hold ground against regular forces militias commonly support regular troops by skirmishing, holding fortifications, or conducting irregular warfare, instead of undertaking offensive campaigns by themselves. The Hempstead Rifles, a volunteer militia company from Arkadelphia, Arkansas, 1861Ī militia ( / m ɪ ˈ l ɪ ʃ ə/) is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non- professional and/or part-time soldiers citizens of a country, or subjects of a state, who may perform military service during a time of need, as opposed to a professional force of regular, full-time military personnel or, historically, to members of a warrior- nobility class (e.g.
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