For if the guerrilla leader Charles Taylor has his way, this remote outpost will become the strategic center of a vast military and administrative empire.

Poland shook off the last great military empire.

This was the center of a military empire.

We are in the process of transforming into a military empire.

The Gupta Empire was one of the largest political and military empires in ancient India.

This eventually turned the Peacekeepers into a military empire.

Well okay, the Americans dropped two bombs sixty-six years ago on a fanatical military empire that had attacked them.

And Donald Rumsfeld is building a military empire.

The military empires of the ancient Middle East all practiced cultural conquest, not hesitating to deport whole peoples.