Standing Army Definition

Standing Army Sentence Examples

• There is a standing army with a peace strength of about 7000 officers and men.

• The active or standing army comprises 18 battalions of infantry, 12 regiments of cavalry, 8 regiments of artillery, and 4 battalions of engineers.

• The equipment of the standing army is thoroughly modern, the infantry being provided with Mauser rifles and the artillery with Krupp batteries.

• An ambitious, energetic sister of Ivan, well known in Russian history as Sophia Alexeyevna,instigated the stryeltsi(strelitz), as the troops Sophia of the unreformed standing army were called, to upset Alexey- the arrangement.

• But this scattered and heterogeneous empire required a large standing army and a strong central government to hold it together.