{
  "id": "military.force",
  "term": "military",
  "sense": "force",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "military",
  "domain": "social",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "organized group of people that a government uses as force",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "government.administrative",
      "force.push",
      "organized.structure",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "people and government together create force through organized structure and application",
    "novel_properties": [
      "institutional coercion",
      "command hierarchy",
      "authorized violence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The United States Army deployed the 101st Airborne Division to secure Mosul Airport in 2003.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Hassan al-Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood's paramilitary wing in Egypt in the 1940s.",
      "domain": "politics"
    },
    {
      "text": "NATO established the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in 2001.",
      "domain": "international"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "system.organized",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "militaries",
    "military"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Definition had a grammatical error ('use' -> 'uses') and missing conceptual dependencies; added organized.structure and use.application to components to align with correct emergence logic."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-military.force"
}