The term usually refers to the Polish Home Army, or Armia Krajowa. Other meanings include:

• In respect of the Allied countries not invaded, such as Britain, Australia, Canada and the United States, the term might be used relating to the forces within the respective country concerned with that country's defence and security, or to differentiate between forces within that country and forces it had deployed outside its borders.
  • American Home Army
  • Britain — Territorial Army and Home Guard

• More prevalent is the use of the term in reference to the overall force mustered and co-ordinated in occupied countries to provide resistance, intelligence and force by arms or sabotage against the occupier. Resistance, to varying degrees, existed in all occupied countries and some bodies, such as those listed below, either employed the term or were generally known by it:
  • Home Army of Norway
  • Hungarian Home Army
  • Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa)
  • Dutch Home Army

• The term may also refer to the anti-nazis movement in Hitler's Germany and the alternate use of the German military force to take domestic control on the removal of Hitler.

See also:

• Home front