National Guard
National Guard is the name used by a wide variety of current and historical uniformed organizations in different countries. The original National Guard was formed during the French Revolution around a cadre of defectors from the French Guards.
Members of the Portuguese National Republican Guard (GNR).
National Guard may refer to:
Africa
- Republican Guard (Egypt), an army division that receives commands only from its commander and the president not from the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces led by the minister of defense.
- National Guard (Guinea-Bissau), a gendarmerie force of Guinea-Bissau
- National Guard (Mauritania), the National Guard of Mauritania
- Tunisian National Guard, a separate military force of Tunisia
Americas
- National Guard (Brazil), a paramilitary militia created in 1831 to support the Brazilian Army
- National Guard (Dominican Republic) (Guardia Nacional), a military force; see History of the Dominican Republic
- National Guard (El Salvador) (1912–1992), the Salvadoran gendarmerie
- National Guard (Mexico), a gendarmerie created in 2019.
- National Guard (Nicaragua) (1925–1979), a militia and a gendarmerie created during the occupation by the United States
- United States National Guard, military reserves organized by each of the 50 U.S. states, territories, and D.C.
- Army National Guard, a reserve force of the United States Army which functions as the ground component of the state-level militia while not in federal service
- Air National Guard, a reserve force of the United States Air Force which functions as the air component of the state-level militia while not in federal service
- Venezuelan National Guard (Guardia Nacional de Venezuela), one of the four components of the National Armed Forces of Venezuela
Asia
- Azerbaijani National Guard, an armed force of the Government of Azerbaijan, and operates as a semi-independent entity
- National Guard (Bahrain), a separate military force in Bahrain that serves both as defence force and as a security force
- National Security Guard, a special force in India primarily utilised for counter-terrorism activities
- National Guard (Iraq), part of the new Military of Iraq absorbed by the Iraqi Army
- National Guard of Kazakhstan
- National Guard (Kyrgyzstan), One of the regiments of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan
- Kuwait National Guard, an internal and border security force part of Kuwait Military Forces
- National Guard of Pakistan, a paramilitary force mainly charged with air defense
- Saudi Arabian National Guard, one of the three major branches of the Armed Forces of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Sri Lanka National Guard, the largest regiment in the Sri Lanka Army
- Presidential National Guard, a special operations branch of the Tajik Armed Forces
- Turkmen National Guard
- Uzbekistan National Guard
Europe
- National Guards Unit of Bulgaria, successor of the Personal Cavalry Convoy of Knyaz Alexander I, re-established in 2001
- Cypriot National Guard, combined arms military force of the Republic of Cyprus
- Estonian Defence League, unified paramilitary armed forces of the Republic of Estonia
- White Guard (Finland) (1918–1944), voluntary militia of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War of 1918
- National Guard (France), militias formed in each city from the time of the French Revolution to the Paris Commune, re-established after several terrorist attacks in 2016
- National Guard of Georgia, a military structure within the Georgian Armed Forces
- National Guard (Greece), a military structure within the Hellenic Army
- National Guard (Ireland), better known as the Blueshirts, a 1930s political movement in Ireland
- National Republican Guard (Italy), a paramilitary force of the Italian Social Republic
- Latvian National Guard, a volunteer paramilitary armed force, part of National Armed Forces of Latvia
- National Republican Guard (Portugal), the gendarmerie of Portugal
- National Guard of Russia, gendarmerie force of Russia, formed in 2016
- National Militia (Spain), 19th century quasi-military force comparable to the National Guard in France
- National Guard of Ukraine, formed 1991–2000 and 2014–current
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gollark: > Earning tons of money through a job that indirectly exploits developing nations and then donating some part of that money to a charity that helps developing nations is probably a net negative for these nations.How do most jobs go around exploiting developing nations? Also, IIRC the figures are something like one life saved per few hundred/thousand $, so I doubt it.
gollark: There seem to be lots of "elites" who are basically *fine*, except you don't hear about them because people only go on about "SOME ELITES DID BAD THINGS".
gollark: > In capitalism, being selfish and ruthless tends to give you more profit and thus economical power. That's why most of the elite are bad, while so many of the poor have good hearts. Though the pressure to survive also ruins and corrupts the poor.Have you never heard of positive-sum stuff? Have you actually *checked* this in any way or are you just pulling in a bunch of stereotypes?
gollark: Newtonian ethics and all.
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