Paramilitary

for the revolution to succeed to become of ‘one heart and one mind’. The indoctrination in the form of education proved to be effective when a group of university students created what became known as the Red Guards. The Red Guards was a social paramilitary…

The historical development of the Republic of Colombia has endured a significant component of a long-lasting political violence. Ever since independence in July 20th, 1810, the former Spanish colony has been engulfed into an ideological struggle over the state’s governance. After the altercation between royalists and separatists, another one arose between supporters of centralism and federalism. The Spaniards ceased the opportunity and re-conquered the incipient republic in 1816. Yet, this…

“Founded in 1926, the original purpose of the Hitler Youth was to train boys to enter the SA (Storm Troopers), a Nazi Party paramilitary formation. After 1933, however, youth leaders sought to integrate boys into the Nazi national community and to prepare them for service as soldiers in the armed forces or, later, in the SS.” (“Indoctrinating”, 1) He was going to use them for the…

World War II was set off by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, in which Germany was forced to comply with a set of very strict terms which were intended to prevent the event of another war. Obviously, this backfired spectacularly; this much can be seen from the very fact that the Second World War did indeed happen. These terms caused national outrage, as Germany’s pride as a country had suffered greatly. One individual who sought to restore the nation back to its former glory had been Hitler…

joan The Problem Introduction In the field of law enforcement, from history and to our present world, law enforcers have been great hands of law and its government. In our country, the evolution of law enforcement has started from military to paramilitary until we reach to a more civilized law enforcing. The Philippine National Police in specific came from radical change from its former name Philippine Constabulary which most of its members are of military personnel. Nowadays, members of the…

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah', was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime and its collaborators. Some historians use a definition of the Holocaust that includes the additional five million non-Jewish victims of Nazi mass murders, bringing the total to approximately eleven million. Killings took place throughout Nazi Germany and German-occupied territories. From 1941 to 1945, Jews were systematically murdered in a genocide, one of…

concentrated on destroying all their opponents, brainwashing people through propaganda, and school, creating fear into the lives of ordinary Germans, and giving people what they wanted so that they would have good reason to support the Nazi regime. A paramilitary secret police ensured compliance. Information and ideas were effectively organized through the control of radio, the press, and education at all levels. Hitler tried to get rid of all his political opponents, because when this was done…

In 1919, a successor to the 1913 militant nationalist organization, the Irish Volunteers, was formed with the purpose of using armed forces to turn over British rule in Ireland. The IRA, or Irish Republican Army, fought for independence from Britain through the employment of guerilla warfare and vicious war tactics to force the British officials to reconsider their rule. After negotiations with Great Britain, two autonomous political entities were formed: Northern Ireland and the Irish Free…

their positions to conduct illicit activities. To compensate for weak police forces, militarized state responses to organized crime networks continues to be common place in the region. In addition to Mexico, Brazil and El Salvador have also used paramilitary and militarized forces to address organized crime. Finally, homicide rates in this…

enforcement, and fishing vessels…” (Austin 2) in order to stake and reinforce their claim on a number of islands. However they don’t actually use the PLA to reinforce their claims they instead use the China Marine Surveillance. The CMS basically are a “…paramilitary maritime law enforcement agency authorized to take offensive action when necessary” (Austin 2). This allows them to step around the issue of using their navy to secure claims as it’s “technically” not their military navy. China…