Sentence:  The employers and the landlords were upheld in their exploitation of the masses by <WSD>militariats</WSD>, who, as masters of their politically and militarily separate territories, moreover, taxed the people outrageously and allowed their soldiers to live upon them and ravage them practically at will. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A ruling class formed by an alliance between military officers and bureaucrats.