war establishment

British  

noun

1. the full wartime complement of men, equipment, and vehicles of a military unit

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Example Sentences

The Cold War establishment had lied and blundered its way through Vietnam, had strained the federal budget with the war and the Great Society and, perhaps most critically, had lost control of the currency.

From Los Angeles Times

At issue is what steps North Korea will agree to take toward dismantling its nuclear capabilities and allow verification, and what the U.S. will offer in return — a peace declaration ending the Korean War, establishment of a liaison office between the two nations, and possible relief from a host of economic sanctions.

From Los Angeles Times

This movement was a small little kernel inside the 1960s protest movement, very idealistic, very anti-establishment in a sense, very anti-the Cold War establishment at the time.

From Newsweek

House of Representatives – because the 16th is so heavily Democratic, O’Rourke’s primary victory virtually assures him the November general election as well – is a finger in the eye of the U.S. drug war establishment.

From Time

Britain would have discovered more candor and magnanimity in paying to them three months' expense of the war establishment, which would have been an ample compensation for all their losses, and left no germ of dissatisfaction to bud and bloom and ripen into discontents here.

From Project Gutenberg