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:

    “The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.”
    —Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)

    “Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)