professional army

Promotion came slow in the tiny professional army of the late 19th century.

“We need to have, we want to have a professional army,” he said.

After the Civil War, the professional army existed mainly in the West where it fought the native Americans.

Even the old professional army exhibited no dead level either of blackguards on the one hand or humble Galahads on the other.

Similarly one detects an oblique and wry fun in the professional army man's use of the word "sieda" to mean "socks."

No reliance on a professional army or professional police can afford any assurance of stability for the Imperial rule.

A professional army is maintained in the main for the defence and maintenance of the master class.

A citizen army was as great a menace to an industrial population as a professional army.