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Home guard

Home guard is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Home guard rather than just read about it. In short: 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. The term "home guard" was first officially used in the American Civil War, starting with units formed by German immigrants in Missouri, and may derive from possible historical use of the term Heimwehr ("home guard") to describe units officially known as Landwehr ("co…

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

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. The term "home guard" was first officially used in the American Civil War, starting with units formed by German immigrants in Missouri, and may derive from possible historical use of the term Heimwehr ("home guard") to describe units officially known as Landwehr ("country guard"), or from an attempted translation of landwehr.

Military units

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Historical & Defunct Aizsargi (Latvia, 1919–1940) Home Guard (Unionist), during the American Civil War Civilian Irregular Defense Group program (1961-1970) during the Vietnam War Confederate Home Guard (1861–1865) during the American Civil War Croatian 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 Party Home 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 Emergency Narodnoe 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 Auxiliary Units City guard Civil Guard (disambiguation) Gendarmerie Home 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) Militia Ordenanças, 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 Guards Wachdienst, an auxiliary organisation erected by the Third Reich in Germany during the last months of World War II

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See also Irregular military Irregular warfare Insurgency weapons and tactics Internal security

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Home guard

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Home guard claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Home guard before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Home guard ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Home guard

In research: Home guard appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Home guard in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Home guard is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Home guards, Military organization, Set index articles, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Home guard outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Home guard in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Home guard matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Home guard?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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