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To: combjelly who wrote (947267)	7/15/2016 1:17:10 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Recommended By jlallen Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576901

They had some use in the War of 1812 and the Civil War as well. But many of the US wars were outside our territory (where the militia will by its nature be useless in direct terms). Militia forces have gradually gotten less useful in pitched battled (and even in the Revolutionary War they were on the average less capable then the regulars in such a situation), but they are well suited to any sort of guerilla campaign should one ever be necessary against a foreign invader (as unlikely as such a thing is for the foreseeable future) or a shift to severe oppression by the US government (although things have to get really bad before such a campaign should even be considered, and even then its hardly a perfect solution both in terms of costs it imposes on the country and in terms of the difficulty involved in waging such a conflict). And yeah, the amendment is limited to militias. Not in English it isn't. Perhaps your reading a poor translation in to a different language.