Military Rule

Military rule may mean:

  • Militarism or militarist ideology - the ideology of government as best served when under military control
  • Military occupation, when a country or area is occupied after invasion.
    • List of military occupations
  • Martial law, where military authority takes over normal administration of law
  • Police state, where people's lives are subject to constant and often covert police surveillance
  • Military law, the legal system applying to members of the armed forces
  • Military dictatorship, a form of government where political power resides with the military
  • Military junta
  • khakistocracy, where the military regime colludes with the elite and industrial classes for perpetuating their rule
  • Military tribunal

Military rule may also be:

  • When a military applies a court-martial and non-judicial punishment
  • When specific laws are applied in a military context as in the United States Uniform Code of Military Justice by the Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG)

Famous quotes containing the words military and/or rule:

    “Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.”
    —Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)