It remains the single strongest indigenous military force in the country.
Supposed advanced technology in this case, the gun, became ironically, a handicap for the indigenous forces.
Because the French army units in Chad provided security, a large indigenous force was unnecessary.
"As to offenses committed against civilians, or among indigenous armed forces, that is beyond my jurisdiction."
Russia has also found strong indigenous forces to serve as local proxies to do much of the continued fighting.
But one of the things we always try to do on a mission is to get indigenous forces to support us.
He said they were an "indigenous force" and therefore would "respectively decline to remove" them.
The British army had suffered its worst ever defeat against a technologically inferior indigenous force.
The most significant function is training and operating with indigenous forces, in order to conduct guerrilla warfare.
The Kurds were and still are the only indigenous force fighting against Saddam's regime.