The army consists of a highly mobile field army backed up by local defence units.

The Army also raised many anti-aircraft and coastal defence units during the war.

They built makeshift barricades against tank attacks and were reported to be forming "defence units".

I simply want to have you on hand as a defence unit.

Many men in reserved occupations joined civil defence units.

The local defence (self-defense) units as planned were to be established in villages, boroughs and towns.

The local defence units were armed from the reserves of the Lithuanian police and through self-armament by the members themselves.

These locally raised defence units met British military standards in organisation and efficiency.

In September 1943 it was the setting of an Italian military defence unit against a German army.

Every industrial or commercial undertaking which employed two hundred or more people could form a civil defence unit to protect its own property and staff.