Best answer I can think of is contempt for legal niceties: we've got the military clout and the responsibility.

Nobody else has the political will, the military and economic clout and the ability to generate sufficient international consent.

The United States has been steadily upping its military clout in the region.

Western nations do not need Russia's money or its military clout, both of which are in short supply these days.

Its other longtime enemy, the United States, has had its diplomatic and military clout severely diminished by this war.

Then each would have the same amount of military clout.

It has no military or diplomatic clout.

What the popes needed was a guarantor with military clout.

Now for the first time, it is gaining economic and military clout, largely because it enjoys one of the most buoyant economies in the world.

The interim government "does not seem to have enough military clout or political support to oust" the Kabul Government, he said.