Regime Change
- The overthrow of a government that is considered an illegitimate regime by means of external force (especially military might), and its replacement with a new government according to the concept of political legitimacy promoted by that force, as was done in World War II to Italy, Germany, and Japan.
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see regime, change.
SynonymsEdit
- (in American strategic language): rollback