• When war ends, when the last shots are fired, peace is officially declared and the boys go home doesn’t necessarily mean the violence from that war suddenly disappears and everyone starts singing Kumbaya. That was not the case for the Great War mostly due in part by para-militarism that occurred in eastern and southern Europe after the Great War had ended. Para-militarism can be described as a group of noncombatants organized as a military force for the purpose of either helping or substituting regular military troops. After World War I, paramilitary forces considered themselves to be beneficial and fought for the creation of nation states; and they did, but with a great force violence behind them like progressive distress, protests, state
