The militia system, with deep roots in English history, was one way of ensuring that the nation could defend itself against all threats, foreign and domestic. Instead of a large full-time ...

They wanted the militia to remain under state control as a check on the national government. Many feared that an institution intended for local defense could be dispatched far from home.

The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense at home.

Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro told The Associated Press ... China claims virtually the entire South China Sea and has deployed coast guard and navy fleets and suspected militia ships to guard ...

MINSK, May 27. /TASS/. Belarus plans to create a people’s militia, Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin announced Friday. "During correction of issues and clarification of development of ...

The Defense Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk ... the disengagement line to create that security zone. The people’s militia of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic unilaterally ...