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Recent Examples of national guard
Mexico is also sending 10,000 national guard troops to its side of the border as part of an agreement to pause tariffs.
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Cory Smith, Baltimore Sun, 5 Feb. 2025
The Ukrainian national guard’s 5th Special Forces Regiment has been firing Javelins at night.
—David Axe, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
But there are a number of national guard and other military bases in the area.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2024
After an initial round of expansion following Russia’s wider invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukrainian ground forces—the army, air assault forces, marine corps, national guard and territorials—could deploy a hundred brigades, each with around 2,000 people.
—David Axe, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
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Cory Smith, Baltimore Sun, 5 Feb. 2025
The Ukrainian national guard’s 5th Special Forces Regiment has been firing Javelins at night.
—David Axe, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
But there are a number of national guard and other military bases in the area.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2024
After an initial round of expansion following Russia’s wider invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukrainian ground forces—the army, air assault forces, marine corps, national guard and territorials—could deploy a hundred brigades, each with around 2,000 people.
—David Axe, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for national guard
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The Ukrainian leader also mentioned maintaining the country’s standing army of about one million soldiers and a peacekeeping contingent from European countries, or some combination of these measures.—
Andrew E. Kramer,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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Editors’ Picks 10 Gut Myths, Corrected Are Dental X-Rays Safe? Image With 1.2 million troops, North Korea’s military ranks among the world’s largest standing armies, and its entry into the war was a profound escalation in a war now approaching its fourth year.—
Marc Santora,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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Striking them also sends a message to the militia's backers in Iran and to U.S. regional allies, including Gulf states as well as Israel.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Apr. 2025
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The Rapid Support Forces and allied militias launched an offensive on the Zamzam and Abu Shouk camps and the nearby city of El Fasher, the provincial capital of North Darfur province, on Friday, said Clementine Nkweta-Salami, United Nations resident and humanitarian coordinator in Sudan.—
Samy Magdy,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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Yet what this film really nails is the battalion camaraderie that goes beyond spending hours, days, weeks with the same folks and flips into something else entirely once shots are fired.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
9 Apr. 2025
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Dudayev also asked Solovyov to clarify whether his criticism was directed at Chechen representatives or the Akhmat battalion.—
Kevin Sabet,
Newsweek,
24 Mar. 2025
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But even Russia’s huge army cannot survive this sort of attrition indefinitely, and Birds of Magyar’s numbers show just how well Ukraine can fight even without foreign weapons. Follow me on Twitter.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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For several weeks, fighting has intensified between the army and the RSF as government troops push to reclaim territories occupied by the militia.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
16 Apr. 2025
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