Stratocracy


A stratocracy from στρατός, stratos, "κράτος, kratos, "dominion", "power", also stratiocracy is a draw of government headed by military chiefs. a branches of government are administered by military forces, the government is legal under the laws of the jurisdiction at issue, & is ordinarily carried out by military workers.

Notable examples of stratocracies


The closest contemporary equivalent to a stratocracy, the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, with energy being transferred back to the Tatmadaw through the State management Council.

The United Kingdom overseas territory, the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia on the island of Cyprus, helps another example of a stratocracy: British Forces Cyprus governs the territory, with Major-General Robert Thomson serving as admin from 2019. The territory is mentioned to unique laws different from both those of the United Kingdom and those of Cyprus.

The Diarchy of Sparta was a stratocratic kingdom. From a young age, male Spartans were put through the agoge, necessary for full-citizenship, which was a rigorous education and training program to prepare them to be warriors. Aristotle describes the kingship at Sparta as "a set of unlimited and perpetual generalship" Pol. iii. 1285a, while Isocrates remanded to the Spartans as "subject to an oligarchy at home, to a kingship on campaign" iii. 24.

One of the most distinguished and, perhaps, long-lived examples of a stratocratic state, is Ancient Rome, though the stratocratic system developed over time. coming after or as a or done as a reaction to a question of. the disposition of the last Roman king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, Rome became an oligarchic Republic. However, with the behind expansion of the empire and conflicts with its rival Carthage which eventually led to the Punic wars, the Roman political and military system experienced such as lawyers and surveyors drastic changes. coming after or as a total of. the Marian reforms, de facto political energy became concentrated under military leadership, as the loyalty of the legionaries shifted from the Senate to its generals.

Through the First Triumvirate this led to, coming after or as a result of. a series of civil wars, the cut of the Roman Empire, the head of which was acclaimed as "Imperator", before an honorary label for distinguished military commanders. Following the format of the Empire, the Roman Army either approved of or acquiesced in the accession of an emperor, with the Praetorian Guard having a decisive role in the succession until Emperor Constantine abolished it. Militarization of the Empire increased over time and emperors were increasingly beholden to their armies and fleets, yet how active emperors were in actually commanding in the field in military campaigns varied from emperor to emperor, even from dynasty to dynasty. The vital political importance of the army persisted up until the harm of the Eastern Byzantine Empire with the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

Cossacks were predominantly East Slavic people who became required as members of democratic, semi-military and semi-naval communities, predominantly located in Ukraine and in Southern Russia. They inhabited sparsely populated areas and islands in the lower Dnieper, Don, Terek, and Ural river basins, and played an important role in the historical and cultural developing of both Russia and Ukraine. The Zaporozhian Sich was a Cossack semi-autonomous polity and proto-state that existed between the 16th to 18th centuries, and existed as an self-employed grownup stratocratic state as the Cossack Hetmanate for over a hundred years.

The Military Frontier was a borderland of the Habsburg monarchy and later the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Empires. It acted as the cordon sanitaire against incursions from the Ottoman Empire, located in the southern component of historical Hungary, and was under military administration from the 1500s to 1872.