# military (force)

organized group of people that a government uses as force

- Computed level: L13 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: social  ·  Arena: military

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [government](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-government.administrative), [force](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-force.push), [organized](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-organized.structure), [use](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-use.application)

**Through:** people and government together create force through organized structure and application

**Novel properties:**
- institutional coercion
- command hierarchy
- authorized violence

## Examples
- The United States Army deployed the 101st Airborne Division to secure Mosul Airport in 2003. *(institutions)*
- Hassan al-Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood's paramilitary wing in Egypt in the 1940s. *(politics)*
- NATO established the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in 2001. *(international)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-military.force.json*  
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