Military leader gets information on armies and soil distribution (13)
I believe the answer is:
generalissimo
'military leader' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'information on armies and soil distribution' is the wordplay.
'information' becomes 'gen' (gen can informally mean information).
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'distribution' indicates anagramming the letters.
'armies'+'soil'='armiessoil'
'armiessoil' anagrammed gives 'eralissimo'.
'gen'+'eralissimo'='GENERALISSIMO'
'gets' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for generalissimo that I've seen before include "Commander-in-chief" , "Supreme commander of combined military forces" , "Political and military leader" , "Supreme commander (It.), title used by Franco" , "Top commander" .)