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A military dictatorship, or a military regime, is a type of dictatorship in which power is held by one or more military officers. Military dictatorships are led by either a single military dictator, known as a strongman, or by a council of military officers known as a military junta.
Military dictatorship, an authoritarian government controlled by a military and its political designees, called a military junta when done extralegally; Military junta, a government led by a committee of military leaders; Stratocracy, a government traditionally or constitutionally run by a military; Military democracy, a war-based society that ...
Military dictatorship: A dictatorship primarily enforced by the military. Military dictators are different from civilian dictators for a number of reasons: their motivations for seizing power, the institutions through which they organize their rule, and the ways in which they leave power. Often viewing itself as saving the nation from the ...
Government Junta of Bolivia (1861) Government Junta of Bolivia (1936–1938) Government Junta of Bolivia (1943–1944) Government Junta of Chile (1924) Government Junta of Chile (1925) Government Junta of Chile (1932) List of government juntas of Chile; Greek junta; Guatemalan military junta of 1957; Military Committee of National Restoration
A military junta (/ ˈ h ʊ n t ə, ˈ dʒ ʌ n t ə / ⓘ) is a system of government led by a committee of military leaders. The term junta means "meeting" or "committee" and originated in the national and local junta organized by the Spanish resistance to Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808. [1]
The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels [a] was a right-wing military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. On 21 April 1967, a group of colonels overthrew the caretaker government a month before scheduled elections which Georgios Papandreou's Centre Union was favoured to win.
Military dictatorships are typically formed by a military coup in which senior officers use the military to overthrow the government. In democracies, the threat of a military coup is associated with the period immediately after a democracy's creation but before large-scale military reforms.
An authoritarian military dictatorship ruled Chile for seventeen years, between 11 September 1973 and 11 March 1990. The dictatorship was established after the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende was overthrown in a coup d'état backed by the United States on 11 September 1973.