What is "warlordism"

Usage examples of "warlordism".

Thus the immediate result of pursuing the Pragmatic Approach would inevitably be a form of warlordism, whereby each of the power centers that emerged after Saddam's fall would move to consolidate its control over its home territory.

Last, by investing the time and resources needed to build a new Iraq, the United States would ensure that it would not be intervening in Iraq again in the near future and would create a new ally in the Arab world that could help bring further stability and progress to the region, rather than contributing to its backwardness and instability--as a new dictatorship or an Iraq torn by civil war or warlordism would.

This would produce the warlordism this approach seeks to prevent, thereby making the creation of a unified and reformed Iraqi political and economic system impossible.

Last, by investing the time and resources needed to build a new Iraq, the United States would ensure that it would not be intervening in Iraq again in the near future and would create a new ally in the Arab world that could help bring further stability and progress to the region, rather than contributing to its backwardness and instability—as a new dictatorship or an Iraq torn by civil war or warlordism would.

And the main issue would apparently be constitutional monarchy versus warlordism, though only he and Durer might know it.

That didn't prevent economic collapse, riots, regional warlordism, and general crisis.