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* [[Yakubu Gowon]]
* [[Yakubu Gowon]]
* [[Ja'far al-Nimeyri]]
* [[Ja'far al-Nimeyri]]
* [[Jean-Baptiste Bagaza]]
* [[Jean-Bédel Bokassa]]
* [[Jorge Rafael Videla]]
* [[Jorge Rafael Videla]]
* [[Luis García Meza]]
* [[Luis García Meza]]
* [[Mamady Doumbouya]]
* [[Mamady Doumbouya]]
* [[Mengistu Haile Mariam]]
* [[Mengistu Haile Mariam]]
* [[Michel Micombero]]
* [[Muammar Gaddafi|Muʿammar Gheddafi]]
* [[Muammar Gaddafi|Muʿammar Gheddafi]]
* [[Manuel Noriega]]  
* [[Manuel Noriega]]  
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* [[Yahya Khan]]
* [[Yahya Khan]]
* [[Yakubu Gowon]]
* [[Yakubu Gowon]]
* [[Zine El Abidine Ben Ali]]  
* [[Zine El Abidine Ben Ali]]
 
=== Organizations ===
=== Organizations ===
* [[Derg]]
* [[Derg]]

Revision as of 03:34, 27 November 2022

A military dictatorship is an authoritarian form of government in which political power is held by the military.

Structure

The state is controlled by a collegiate body that is composed by various people belonging to the high ranks of the army and is under the control a senior officer or supreme commander of the armed forces. This type of collegiate body applies over the country the martial laws.

Even though the government has great power over the nation (power that is obtained through the violation of human rights and with strong indoctrination through a fervent cult of personality), it should be known that these types of governments can easily break down. In fact, it often abandons power only under the pressure of an already ongoing or imminent popular uprising.

Characteristic

There are vatious characteristic that various military dictatorships have in common. One of them is that it starts after a coup d'etat by replacing the old government (only Saddam Hussein's regime didn't start with a coup d'etat). Very often, it justifies itself with excuse of "protecting" the country from "dangerous ideologies" and defines civilian politicians as "corrupt" and "incompetent".

Examples

People

Organizations