militocracy
militocracy noun: the government of the armed forces.
Noun
militocracy (countable and uncountable, plural militocracies)
- The government of the armed forces.
- Germany under Wilhelm II and Poland under Pilsudski exemplify a variant of militocracy where political preponderance and economic favours were restricted to the officer corps.1968, Stanislav Andreski, “Postscript to the second edition”, in Military Organization and Society, 2nd edition, University of California Press, page 185
- Early states were usually governed by militocracies, whose main source of social power was simply force. This was a consequence of one of the most important principles of social evolution, namely that “war made the state, and states made war.”2023, Peter Turchin, End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration, Penguin, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- stratocracy
Synonyms of militocracy
Forms of militocracy
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Origin of militocracy
From milit(ary) + -ocracy.
Questions about militocracy
- What does militocracy mean?
- Militocracy means the government of the armed forces.
- What part of speech is militocracy?
- Militocracy is a noun.
- What is the plural of militocracy?
- The plural of militocracy is militocracies.
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