Editing Central Powers (section)

== Non-state combatants ==
Other movements supported the efforts of the Central Powers for their own reasons, such as the radical [[Irish Republican Brotherhood|Irish Nationalists]] who launched the [[Easter Rising]] in [[Dublin]] in April 1916; they referred to their "gallant allies in Europe". However, most Irish Nationalists supported the British and allied war effort up until 1916, when the Irish political landscape was changing. In 1914, [[Józef Piłsudski]] was permitted by Germany and Austria-Hungary to form independent [[Polish Legions in World War I|Polish legions]]. Piłsudski wanted his legions to help the Central Powers defeat Russia and then side with France and the UK and win the war with them.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rothschild |first=Joseph |title=East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars |year=1990 |page=45}}</ref> Below is a list of these non-state combatants.

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* [[Irish Citizen Army]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Townshend |first=Charles |title=Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion |date=2006 |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-14-101216-2 |location=London}}</ref>
* [[Irish Republican Brotherhood]]
* [[Irish Volunteers]]
* [[White Guard (Finland)]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Haapala |first=Pertti |title=Sisällissodan Pikkujättiläinen |date=2009 |publisher=Söderström |isbn=978-951-0-35452-0 |editor-last=Hoppu |editor-first=Tuomas |edition= |location=[[Helsinki]] }}</ref>
* [[Polish Legions in World War I|Polish Legions]]<ref name="rlg">{{cite book |last1=Buttar |first1=Prit |title=Russia's Last Gasp: The Eastern Front 1916–17 |date=2017 |publisher=Osprey Publishing |isbn=978-1-4728-2489-9 |location=Oxford |page=192}}</ref>
* [[Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization|IMRO]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Macedonia and the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization / 1.0 / encyclopedic |url=https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/macedonia-and-the-internal-macedonian-revolutionary-organization/#toc_eve_of_bulgarian_entry_in_the_great_war |access-date=2024-11-04 |website=1914–1918-Online (WW1) Encyclopedia |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Ahl Haydara Mansur]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jacob |first=H. |date=10 March 1916 |title=Present Political Situation in our Hinterland and Beyond the Border |url=https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100080540439.0x00005b |work=Political Resident, Aden |page=3}}</ref>
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