America has not had a true citizen army for decades.
Far more striking was the fighting ability shown by America's young citizen army.
He called for a "citizen army of 1 million volunteer tutors" to make sure every child can read by the third grade.
And it forged in battle a new citizen army.
But policing civilians involves constant pressure, especially for Israel's citizen army.
And on the left, small groups have arisen calling for Israel's citizen army to refuse to serve in the territories.
Because health care is so large an industry and affects virtually every American, competing citizen armies appear to be emerging.
Finally, he established a citizen army called the Foloalindahy (the "100,000 soldiers").
Some of the fundamental premises of his citizen army were flawed.
It was the creoles themselves who raised a citizen army to defend Spanish sovereignty.