Military
- British Home Guard
- Combat Groups of the Working Class (German: Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse, KdA)
- Confederate Home Guard, during the American Civil War
- Croatian Home Guard
- Danish Home Guard
- Omakaitse, Estonian Home Guard in WW II.
- Kaitseliit, Estonian Defence League. Active.
- Landstorm, Male conscripts over 32 years old of the European legal class in the Royal Dutch East Indies Army (KNIL) of the Dutch East Indies.
- Local Defence troops (Finland)
- Home Guard (Unionist), during the American Civil War
- Royal Hong Kong Regiment
- Indian Home Guard.
- Zemessardze, Latvian National Guard. Active.
- Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force (1944)
- Militia
- National Guard of the United States
- Norwegian Home Guard
- Polish Home Army or Armia Krajowa.
- Slovene Home Guard.
- Sri Lankan Home Guard
- State defense forces of the various United States of America
- Swedish Home Guard
- Territorial Army (United Kingdom), British reserve forces
- Territorial Army (India), Indian reserve force
- Territorial Defense Forces (Yugoslavia)
- Volkssturm, German Home Guard (Second World War)
- Volunteer Defence Corps, Australia
- Volunteer Fighting Corps - Japan (Second World War)
- Volunteer Training Corps (World War I) - United Kingdom
- Wachdienst, an auxiliary organisation erected by the Third Reich in Germany during the last months of World War II.
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