war measures
Conflict-time government actions
War measures are emergency powers and actions taken by a government during wartime or national crisis.
These typically include military mobilization, economic controls, censorship, and restrictions on civil liberties that would be impermissible in peacetime: The government invoked war measures to requisition factories for military production.
The term often carries connotations of overreach, as when such powers are applied to domestic dissent or extended beyond genuine emergencies.
- war bondsGovernment debt for combat
- liberty bondsGovernment securities financing conflict
- martial lawArmed forces governance
- troop deploymentStationing soldiers operationally
- rationingLimiting distribution during scarcity
food stamps · draft dodgers · curfews · emergency powers · propaganda campaigns · executive orders · total war · war footing · war effort · strategic bombing · price controls · home front · arms production · war cabinet · naval blockades · media control · war profiteering · trade embargoes
- French RevolutionBastille, guillotine, Robespierre, French Revolution, Marie Antoinette
- war mobilizationmobilization, troop mobilization, military draft, selective service, mobilization orders
- War Legislationwar powers, military tribunals, emergency powers, military funding, military drafts
war measurespeace initiatives
Programs to end conflicts
peace accords · demobilization · disarmament · demilitarization · peace treaty
war measurescivil liberties
Rights limiting government power
constitutional protections · habeas corpus · due process · freedom of assembly · freedom of the press
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