securocrat

Another perspective separates these two groups into securocrat commanders and civilian politicians.

Regarded in Whitehall as the ultimate securocrat.

Syria, furthermore, is bleeding sanctions-stricken Iran of about $9bn a year, according to an Arab securocrat.

Even so, de Klerk inherited all his ministers concerned with security affairs, as well as key public service bureaucrats, from the former president's securocrat network.

Is the "Old" Securocrat Network Still in Place?

One European securocrat describes the "de facto alliance" between Hizbollah and the army as the hinge of Lebanon's stability.

At its last update to the Oxford English Dictionary in September, lexicographers added words such as Britcom (a British comedy) and securocrat (a government functionary overly concerned with security).

When David Davis MP coined the term "securocrat", he illustrated the ability of Sir Humphrey in Yes Minister to hide empire-building behind warnings of the sky falling in.

First impressions matter because - unless you are a hardline libertarian or a cold-blooded securocrat - Mr Snowden's exposure of the cyber snooping of the US government will leave you feeling ambivalent.

Is it Hillary the wily securocrat, who can be trusted to defend the Free World when the Pentagon rings with bad news in the early hours?

A power that needs to be tightly justified and proportionate to the real risk has become a securocrat's free-for-all.