Stratocracy

Portrait of Robert Filmer, the first person to use the term stratocracy in English.[1]

A stratocracy (from Ancient Greek στρατός (stratós) 'army' and κράτος (krátos) 'dominion, power'),[2] also called stratiocracy,[3][4][5] is a form of government headed by military chiefs.[6] The branches of government are administered by military forces, the government is legal under the laws of the jurisdiction at issue, and is usually carried out by military workers.[7]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Blackford 1956 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Milojević, Jelisaveta (2010). "Neo-Classical Neological Formations in the English Language". Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies. 2 (1): 84. doi:10.18485/bells.2010.2.3. Archived from the original on 15 August 2021.
  3. ^ Kaplan, Mordecai (October 2016) [1940]. Scult, Mel (ed.). Communings of the Spirit, Volume II: The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, 1934–1941. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 9780814341629.
  4. ^ A Pallas nagy lexikona (in Hungarian). Vol. 15. 1897.
  5. ^ Révai Nagy Lexikona (in Hungarian). Vol. 17. 1925. p. 755.
  6. ^ Bouvier, John; Gleason, Daniel A. (1999) [1851]. Institutes of American law. The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-886363-80-9.
  7. ^ de Grazia 1970.