militocracy
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From milit(ary) + -ocracy.
Noun
[edit]militocracy (countable and uncountable, plural militocracies)
- The government of the armed forces.
- Synonym: stratocracy
- 1968, Stanislav Andreski, “Postscript to the second edition”, in Military Organization and Society, 2nd edition, University of California Press, page 185:
- 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.
- 2023, Peter Turchin, End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration[1], Penguin, →ISBN:
- 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.”