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Home guard is a title given to military organizations at various times, with the implication of an emergency or reserve force raised for local defense.

Military units
Active Historical & Defunct Aizsargi (Latvia, 1919–1940) • Home Guard (Unionist), during the American Civil WarCivilian Irregular Defense Group program (1961-1970) during the Vietnam WarConfederate Home Guard (1861–1865) during the American Civil WarCroatian Home Guard, several historic military formations during 19th and 20th century • Czechoslovak Home Guard (1918–1919) • Home Guard (Austria) (Heimwehr) (1920–1938) paramilitary unit of Fatherland Front PartyHome Guard (New Zealand) (1940–1943) • Home Guard (United Kingdom) (1940–1944) (1952-1957) • Home Service Force, British force for the 1980s-90s. • Indian Home Guard, units raised from Indian tribes to support the Unionists in the American Civil War • Kikuyu Home Guard, a government paramilitary force in Kenya (1953–1955) • Malayan Home Guard, auxiliary volunteer police forces in Malaya during Malayan EmergencyNarodnoe Opolcheniye, Russia • Slovene Home Guard (1943–1945) • Veterans Guard of Canada (1940–1947) • Volkssturm, Nazi Germany (1944-1945) • Volunteer Defence Corps (Australia) (1940-1944) • Volunteer Fighting Corps, Japanese armed citizen militia (1945) ==Similar units==
Similar units
Auxiliary UnitsCity guardCivil Guard (disambiguation)GendarmerieHome Guard (India)Home Army (Armia Krajowa), Poland, World War II • Fencibles, British temporary militias • Boeitai, a Japanese home guard force of World War II • Kondei, ancient Japanese militia of the Nara and Heian periods • Local Defence troops (Finland)MilitiaOrdenanças, Portuguese home guard from 1570 to 1831 • Omakaitse, Estonian Home Guard in World War II • United States Coast Guard Reserve "temporary reservists" during World War II • United States GuardsWachdienst, an auxiliary organisation erected by the Third Reich in Germany during the last months of World War II ==Other==
Other
Home Guard (Shannara), in Terry Brooks' novel series • Home Guard potato, a variety of first early potato ==See also==
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