standing army
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Now some of those companies want a standing army of their own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
On Dec. 23, the Justices adopted a celebrated Georgetown scholar’s academic reading of the statute, saying it only allowed the president to commandeer national guard troops if the situation had already outmatched the standing army.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
That reading continued into the 1800s, when both Congress and the Supreme Court referred to the standing army as “regular forces.”
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2025
It appears that the country's leader Kim Jong Un has directed much of his limited resources into missiles and nuclear weapons rather than his standing army.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024
Bloom had no idea whether Russia even had a standing army, let alone how many soldiers it might include and how many square feet they would cover.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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