Like all wars, it's fairly complicated. > But it was far and away the largest component. I don't know if that's true. If we're talking number of troops, I don

Like all wars, it's fairly complicated. > But it was far and away the largest component. I don't know if that's true. If we're talking number of troops, I don't think so. The bulk would be the loyalist part of the army and the Guardia Civil/Guardia Asalto. Then you had a number of political militias which would eventually be integrated into the regular army. In parallel, communists would introduce the political commissar system to enforce ideological "correctness" within the army, thus giving rise to entirely Communist regiments, based on the prototype of the 5th regiment (originally a communist-affiliated unit, later on integrated in the regular army as an elite corps).