garrison state
noun
: a state organized to serve primarily its own need for military security
also
: a state maintained by military power
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The garrison state will not simply disappear when the guns go silent.
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Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 9 May 2025
To compensate, the United States might have to become a garrison state, with its wealth and civil liberties eroded by breakneck militarization.
—Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
With minor variations, these policies have been a matter of bipartisan consensus since the George W. Bush administration embarked on the path of turning the country into a garrison state after 9/11.
—Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2021
This elaborate garrison state was put in place to allow the federal government to function after a nuclear attack.
—Ed Burmila, The New Republic, 13 June 2019
With no domestic pressure on the generals to reform, Pakistan will remain what the Singaporean scholar Tan Tai Yong calls a garrison state dominated by the army.
—Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 30 July 2017
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Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 9 May 2025
To compensate, the United States might have to become a garrison state, with its wealth and civil liberties eroded by breakneck militarization.
—Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
With minor variations, these policies have been a matter of bipartisan consensus since the George W. Bush administration embarked on the path of turning the country into a garrison state after 9/11.
—Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2021
This elaborate garrison state was put in place to allow the federal government to function after a nuclear attack.
—Ed Burmila, The New Republic, 13 June 2019
With no domestic pressure on the generals to reform, Pakistan will remain what the Singaporean scholar Tan Tai Yong calls a garrison state dominated by the army.
—Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 30 July 2017
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“Garrison state.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garrison%20state. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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