underground army
Secret rebel force
An underground army is a clandestine military or paramilitary force operating in secret, typically against an occupying power or oppressive regime.
The term evokes resistance movements like the French Resistance in World War II.
Members live outwardly normal lives while conducting sabotage, intelligence gathering, or guerrilla warfare: The underground army had been organizing for months before the uprising.
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- resistance movementOrganized opposition to occupation
- guerrillaIrregular armed fighter
- partisanBiased toward one side
- freedom fightersArmed opponents of oppression
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- armed groupsmilitia, guerrillas, insurgents, paramilitary, militias
underground armyregular army
Nation's permanent military force
standing army · government forces · conventional forces · professional army · defense forces
underground armyoccupation force
Military controlling foreign territory
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