Militariat
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Militariat is a noun meaning A ruling class resulting from a coup by junior officers and non-officers from the military.
Meaning
A ruling class resulting from a coup by junior officers and non-officers from the military.
More Meanings
- A ruling class formed by an alliance between military officers and bureaucrats.
Example Sentences
Irregulars of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) shared both the subaltern class location and lumpen culture of the militariat in Sierra Leone.
The militariat generally lack a "social consciousness" (Kandeh 2004, 3), aw well as the intellectual skills, organizational expertise, and military discipline necessary for governance.
It is noted that some military coups, especially in West Africa, have been carried out, not by senior officers, but by junior & noncommissioned officers, ie, the militariat, which occupies a class position in the army analogous to the working class in society.
The employers and the landlords were upheld in their exploitation of the masses by militariats, who, as masters of their politically and militarily separate territories, moreover, taxed the people outrageously and allowed their soldiers to live upon them and ravage them practically at will.
Word Forms
- militariats
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include militocracy, paramilitary, militician, junta, militarian, militia.
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