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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 ]
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 ...
Junta (/ ˈ h ʊ n t ə / ⓘ or / ˈ dʒ ʌ n t ə /) is a Spanish, Portuguese and Italian (giunta) term for a civil deliberative or administrative council. In English, the term, even when used alone, generally refers to a " military junta ", the government of an authoritarian state run by high-ranking officers of a military .
The Derg (or Dergue; Amharic: ደርግ, lit. ' committee ' or ' council '), officially the Provisional Military Administrative Council (PMAC), [4] [5] was the Ethiopian state (including present-day Eritrea) that existed first from 1974 to 1987 as a military dictatorship and then until 1991 when the military junta formally "civilianized" the administration although remained in power.
The Southeast Asian country has been in turmoil since the military seized power from an elected government in a 2021 coup and plans by the junta to call up more people to fight point to the ...
Military dictatorship, a form of government where political power resides with the military Military junta ("junta," from Spanish meaning "together") Military democracy , a form of military government of a war-based society which practices democracy , with an elected and removable supreme chief , a council of elders , and a popular assembly .
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) signed on June 18, 1878, by President Rutherford B. Hayes that limits the powers of the federal government in the use of federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States.