Examples of Irregular Military
See also: List of guerrillas- Bands (Italian Army irregulars)
- Bashi-bazouk — Irregular mounted mercenary in the Ottoman Empire
- Berserkers
- Camisards — Huguenot insurgency in the beginning of the 17th century in the Cevennes mountains
- Commando
- Filibuster (military)
- Hajduks— bandits and irregulars in and against the Ottoman Empire, but found amongst military ranks in Hungary and Poland-Lithuania.
- Klephts — Greek guerrilla fighters in Ottoman Greece
- Legion of Frontiersmen — An irregular quasi-military organization that proliferated throughout the British Empire prior to World War I
- Makhnovshchina — Ukrainian anarchist army that fought both the White Armies and the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War.
- Minutemen — American irregular troops during the American Revolution
- Pandurs — Habsburg Monarchy 17th and 18th century skirmisher, later evolving in the regular Grenzer.
- Partisan (military)
- Pindari — 18th century irregular horsemen in India
- Private Military Contractors
- Prussian Landsturm — created by a 21 April 1813 edict of the King of Prussia
- Raider (piracy)
- Righteous Army— in Korean history
- Rough Riders — in the Spanish-American War
- Viet Cong
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