war machine
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Definition
Noun: 1. The organized military resources and armed forces of a nation or group: This term refers to the entire, complex system of a country's military power, including its personnel, equipment, logistics, and industrial capacity to wage war. It often implies a large, impersonal, and powerful system.
Usage
The term "war machine" is typically used to describe a nation's military in a way that emphasizes its scale, power, and systematic nature. It is often used in political, historical, or journalistic contexts. * The country's vast war machine was mobilized for a full-scale invasion. * Analysts studied the capabilities of the enemy's war machine. * The general was tasked with modernizing the nation's aging war machine.
Advanced Usage
- The term can be used metaphorically to describe any large, powerful, and relentless system or organization, not just a literal military.
- The corporation's legal war machine crushed all opposition.
Variants and Related Words
- Military (n): The armed forces of a country. (A more common and neutral term).
- Armed forces (n): A country's army, navy, and air force.
- Military-industrial complex (n): A network of a nation's military and the defense industry that supplies it, seen as a powerful combined interest group.
Synonyms
- Military forces
- Armed forces
- Military apparatus
Related Phrases / Idioms
- To fuel the war machine: To provide the resources (money, materials, propaganda) needed for a military to operate.
- The propaganda was designed to fuel the war machine and maintain public support.
- A well-oiled war machine: A military that operates with great efficiency and coordination.
- Their forces were not a well-oiled war machine; they were plagued by poor logistics.
Noun
- the military forces of a nation
- their military is the largest in the region
- the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker