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Synonyms for warlord

military leader

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supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak

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'So when we hear about warlords, don't just see them in a bad light.
But he closes his eyes to the glaring reality that political power in our provinces are in the hands of political warlords who will monopolize the expanded powers granted to provincial leaders under a federal form of government.
Among the topics are mercenaries and warlords in the Achaemenid Empire, commanders and warlords in fourth-century BC central Greece, prolegomena to the study of warlordism in later Hellenistic Anatolia, why there were no warlords in Republican Rome, and generalissimos and warlords in the late Roman west.
Chairman Senate said that warlord of crowd is coming from the front which says kill the people in crowds.
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The post The people, not warlords, should choose the president appeared first on Executive Magazine.
Joseph Dunford, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan, says that the US government has unintentionally empowered warlords and fostered corruption in Afghanistan.
by Habibur Rahman Sherzai on 17 April, 2014 - 17:44 KUNDUZ (Pajhwok): Some warlords and government departments owed more than 100 million afghanis in unpaid electricity bills to the power utility in northern Kunduz province, an official said on Thursday.
Afghanistan has been cursed by its warlords and militias; they continue to exert influence in all fields.
Lebanon: Warlords of Tripoli (Trailer) By Vice A day in the life of a gun toting warlords in the lawless streets of Napoli, Lebanon should make for some great family viewing!
The first set of observations describes the origins of warlords. The principal observation is that specialists in violence always exist in a society but that such a specialist becomes a warlord, i.e., personally rules part of the national territory, only when the national government cannot control that territory at a cost which is unacceptable to the national government.
For his part, Najibullah attempted to defuse the insurgency by initiating a policy of national reconciliation among those Afghan warlords who had resisted the Soviet military occupation.
Prompted by reflection on enduring warlordism under the auspices of of the Karzai government in occupied Afghanistan, Marten (political science, Barnard College) provides a comparative examination of recent cases of state leader (foreign and domestic) responses to warlords (or "local power brokers" in Washington euphemism) in order to theorize the relationship between states, sovereignty, warlords, and stability and security in the contemporary world order.