Levy (Military)

A levy (plural levies) is a military force raised ("levied") in a particular manner. In the Roman legion this typically means "farmer soldier" militia units raised by conscription that provided most of light and heavy infantry composition—most of which were of poor training and little fighting ability—but not always. In the British Empire, levies were units raised by local officials for local tasks, typically for local order and security.

• Conscript forces
  • Feudal levies a form of medieval conscription
  • Shire levy, a means of military recruitment in medieval England
  • Opolchenie, a Russian version of medieval conscription
  • Levée en masse, mass conscript armies, especially that of Revolutionary France
  • Volkssturm, a Nazi-German organized conscription during (last days of) WWII
• Locally raised forces within the British Empire
  • Aden Protectorate Levies (became Federal Regular Army of the South Arabian Federation, which then became the army of the People's Republic of South Yemen)
  • Iraq Levies
  • Kachin Levies
  • Pakistan Levies
    • Balochistan Levies
    • Malakand Levies
    • Swat Levies
    • Dir Levies
  • Trucial Oman Levies (became Union Defence Force of the UAE)