Cong's army Pindari – 18th century irregular horsemen in India Rapparee - Irish guerillas (1690s) Righteous Army— militias organised at several dates in Korean history Rough Riders – in the Spanish–American War Ruga-Ruga - East African auxiliaries to German and British colonial armies. Trenck's Pandurs – Habsburg monarchy 17th and 18th century skirmisher, later evolving in the regular Grenz infantry. Zapatistas - militant political movement active in southern Mexico from 1994. Zeybeks - Ottoman irregulars (17th to 20th centuries) Irregulars in today's warfare Modern conflicts in post-invasion Iraq, the renewed Taliban insurgency in the 2001 war in Afghanistan, the Darfur conflict, the rebellion in the North of Uganda by the Lord's Resistance Army, and the Second Chechen War are fought almost entirely by irregular forces on one or both sides. The CIA's Special Activities Center (SAC) is the premiere American paramilitary clandestine unit for creating or combating irregular military forces. SAD paramilitary officers created and led successful units from the Hmong tribe during the Laotian Civil War in the 1960s and 1970s. They also organized and led the Mujaheddin as an irregular force against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s, as well as the Northern Alliance as an irregular insurgency force against the Taliban with US Army Special Forces during the war in Afghanistan in 2001 and organized and led the Kurdish Peshmerga with US Army Special Forces as an irregular counter-insurgency force against the Kurdish Sunni Islamist group Ansar al-Islam at the Iraq-Iran border and as an irregular force against Saddam Hussein during the war in Iraq in 2003. Irregular civilian volunteers also played a large role during the battle of Kyiv during the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine. See also Asymmetric warfare – Military theory that also includes regulars vs. irregulars Fifth column Fourth generation warfare "Yank" Levy, teacher of the Home Guard and coauthor of the first practical book on Guerrilla Warfare Low intensity conflict Military volunteer Unconventional warfare Violent non-state actors Sissi (Finnish light infantry) References General references: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Epitoma rei militaris Dr. Thomas M. Huber, Compound Warfare: An Anthology Clifford J. Rogers, Military Technical Revolution debate among historians John M. Gates, US Army & Irregular Warfare Harold P. Ford, CIA and the Vietnam Policymakers: Three Episodes 1962–1968 Robert R. Mackey, "The UnCivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861–1865," University of Oklahoma Press, 2004, Specific references: Further reading