This is a list of past and present army units whose names include the word guard. Border guards, coast guards, civil guards, home guards, national guards, honor guards, republican guards, imperial guards and royal guards are listed under their own articles. See also Presidential Guard and Red Guards (disambiguation).
Guard Battalion, Presidential Security Command
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has a large number of Guards units.
For Guards units before 1918, see Russian Empire.
Each of the foot guards and four of the guards grenadiers would form reserve (Landwehr) units upon mobilization in August 1914.