Stratocracy
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A stratocracy is a form of government headed by military chiefs. The branches of government are administered by military forces, the government is legal under the laws of the jurisdiction at issue, an
Portrait of Robert Filmer, the first person to use the term stratocracy in English.
Banner of the Dey of Algiers, Victor Hugo museum, Paris.
Senior General Than Shwe who was the Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council from 1992 to 2011.
US President Dwight D. Eisenhower famously warned of a "military–industrial complex" in his farewell address.
Corsairs of Algiers
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The ta'ifa of raïs or the Raïs for short, were Barbary pirates based in Regency of Algiers who were involved in piracy and the slave trade in the Mediterranean Sea from the 16th to the 19th century. T
A Corsair of Algiers
Extent of the Regency of Algiers in late 18th-/early 19th-century according to multiple primary sources
Inside the Palais des Rais (Palace of the Corsair captains) in Algiers
Admiralty of Algiers in 1880, seat of Captain Raïs, harbor master and Wakil al-kharadj (minister of the navy)