They ranged from men armed with shotguns assigned to village defense tasks to organized, uniformed, and well-equipped brigade-sized formations that nevertheless employed part-time soldiers.

Unlike other Australian police forces, which originally employed soldiers or former convicts, the South Australia Police enlisted only volunteers.

It also appears in discussions about private military companies-businesses that commonly employ soldiers who have left the military.

In turn, the invading Mongols employed northern Chinese soldiers and used these same type of gunpowder weapons against the Song.

He employed professional soldiers, but neither did he refrain from mobilizing local peasantry against invaders.

During the continuous skirmishing of the 1260s, both sides employed Muslim soldiers, mostly Turcopoles, against their Christian foes.

The army has employed soldiers for UN service on short time contracts since the 1950s for service abroad.

State sanctioned training is by far the most extensive and thorough, often employing professional soldiers and covert operatives of the supporting state.

Instead, he used his own funds, employed former soldiers, exhaustively screened by himself, and turned the house and grounds into a small but impenetrable fortress.

Although I had adopted the general rule of employing only soldiers as scouts, there was an occasional exception to it.