generalissimo

The core of divisions directly under the control of the generalissimo were better trained and equipped.

Doesn't matter if it's a tyranny by some generalissimo or amorphous mob of twitter gibbering nitwits or tiki torch bearing numskulls.

Like democracies, unions suck, but they are not as bad as the alternative -- unless you're the boss or the generalissimo.

Deterrence + autocracy is pretty unstable, because eventually the generalissimo gets to thinking that if he already has military capability sitting around...

One response by London, was to support Mao Tse-tung's communist insurrection, against the pro-American, Kuomintang government of generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in China.

I guess if you're a solo founder who doesn't take much money, you can try to remain some sort of generalissimo.

This breaking news just in, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

The US also allied with a lot of unsavory spanish speaking dictators in latin america; mostly for the same reason -they saw generalissimo types as a lesser evil to communist revolutionaries.

The CEO becomes father, king/presidente/generalissimo, and priest, because it's likely that none of those things will exist in the lives of the employees to the same extent as they did in previous generations.

Also it’s striking that when the US finally entered the war they chose a logistics expert (Eisenhower) as European generalissimo rather than a direct war fighter (though he had fought in WWI among other places).

Well, I think specifically autocratic governments with a single king/generalissimo/Dear Leader; this sort of flattery-based approach (it's hardly even real bribery, really; the value of the item is more or less beside the point in this case) does not work with _all_ types of un/anti-democratic governments.

The Germans may not have been in perfect shape, but they were incomparably better off than the starving scarecrows with whom Generalissimo Chiang was trying to hold back the Japanese in West Hunan or the Americans who had fought despair, fever and Japanese—all three at once—on Bataan.

At this point it's become a joke, like the old Saturday Night Live Weekend Update, "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead."

In other news, we're in 21st century, there's this new thing called "internet" that is getting popular, and Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

"Our top story tonight: Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead"

He's a sort of "business generalissimo": rather than going around in a uniform with a bunch of unearned medals, he talks about his business "successes" (inherited or bankrupt) endlessly.

And the Supreme Court's disastrous decision on presidential immunity is allowing Trump to play Generalissimo.

It's as if they knew they'd be laughed at if they tried to translate the Generalissimo's name as Fair and Upright Jiang.

So for that I suppose I should be grateful to our new Generalissimo.