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Any country or entity that has the manpower to train and maintain a stable fighting force.
No. If you mean in school, they cannot force you to participate in the pledge.
a soldier, military force, etc., deployed to maintain or restore peace
it exists as the central force in order that a government can command, maintain peace and order, and survive, irrespective of any constitutional provision.
American values differ from those of Western Europeans in many important ways, that it is sometimes necessary to use military force to maintain order in the world.
A militaristic government believes in the ideology that a country should maintain a strong military force. The state should then be prepared to use this force against external threats.
This is the Turkish military, fourth largest military force in the World.
The individual US states cannot maintain a military force, but each state has a detachment of the National Guard, consisting of recruits from within the state, and typically under control of the state governor.
Britain and France had a treaty pledge to assist Poland if its independce was threatened by military force, so France (along with Britain) went to war against Germany when the latter invaded Poland in 1939.
Actually, Peru is a democratic republic governed by a constitutional president and a parliament. However there has been political situations in the past in which military presidents have held power by force or illegally.
By force and threats of force.
The force theory of the state argues that governments emerge and maintain power through the threat or use of force. It suggests that those in power control society through military or police power, using coercion to maintain order and authority. This theory has been critiqued for overlooking other factors that contribute to the formation and stability of states.