Military civic activity has two faces. One is that, faced with a State under construction or its precariousness, the Armed Forces fulfill roles that correspond to civil institutions and thus guarantee the legitimacy of the Government.
I look at it more as a military national or military popular rather than military civic or military local (or native) governance. National, of course, understood as “common to or characteristic of a nation”. The reason being that Russia’s Caucasus administration expected that the local populace be governed by national (folk) customs and special decrees rather than imperial (federal, if I may) laws.