The incorporation of some mainstream political views within the militia movement further complicates the process of isolating where the militias go wrong.

The militia movement walks a delicate line between stoking its members' paranoid fears and fantasies of rebellion and holding them in check.

Numerous protestors stayed at the site during the standoff or siege including members of the militia movement.

The period between 1815 and 1860 was the heyday of the volunteer militia movement.

The book parodies paranoid militia movement groups that believe in somewhat bizarre conspiracy theories.

He was a coal merchant and a militia officer before the war.

As a militia officer himself, he had experience mustering and drilling bodies of troops.

Both regular and militia officer candidates undergo a one-year program of basic training.

He was accused of cowardice and stupidity and an attempt was made to persuade the senior militia officer to arrest him.

When the war was over, he remained a militia officer, but resumed his civil career.

Already such ministers depend for support and protection not on a national army or police force but on private militias and mercenaries.

Emergence of state-sponsored or state-supported private militias that terrorize political opponents, suspected enemies, or civilians seen to be sympathetic to the opposition.

Some farmers formed their own private militias with a number of heavily armed jagunos.