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standing armies  

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  • Standing armies are permanent, professional militaries maintained both in war and in peacetime. There is considerable debate over how and why large standing armies emerged in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Standing Armies]

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