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Recent Examples of standing army
This really is the key technology to make an upper stage rapidly reusable—NASA's space shuttle orbiters were reusable but required a standing army to refurbish the vehicle between flights.
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Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
Update on Population 'Emergency' Russian and Chinese Naval Fleet Sails Near US Ally
Some analysts have pointed to the role technology could play to reduce the streamline the modern standing armies.
—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
Nearly 170,000 active-duty troops are stationed abroad, a number larger than the entire standing army of many countries, including Canada.
—Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2025
By 2022, most analysts believed that by possessing one of the largest standing armies in the world and having equipped it with a variety of sophisticated weapons systems, Russia would inevitably have a natural advantage over Ukraine’s much smaller defense forces.
—Zoltan Barany, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2023
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Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
Update on Population 'Emergency' Russian and Chinese Naval Fleet Sails Near US Ally
Some analysts have pointed to the role technology could play to reduce the streamline the modern standing armies.
—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
Nearly 170,000 active-duty troops are stationed abroad, a number larger than the entire standing army of many countries, including Canada.
—Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2025
By 2022, most analysts believed that by possessing one of the largest standing armies in the world and having equipped it with a variety of sophisticated weapons systems, Russia would inevitably have a natural advantage over Ukraine’s much smaller defense forces.
—Zoltan Barany, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for standing army
Noun
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Local police guarded the center along with members of Mexico's national guard.—
Daniel Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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Trump has deployed the national guard to cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and Memphis to quell protests against stricter immigration enforcement.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025
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So did laws and court rulings that followed — barring Black men from the militia, barring Black adults from juries, barring Black children from learning alongside white children in public schools, and barring racial intermarriage.—
Equal Justice Initiative,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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Civilians fleeing the area and satellite imagery suggest the militia carried out mass killings of those who remained.—
Abigail Williams,
NBC news,
6 Nov. 2025
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