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Military dictatorship, form of government in which the military exerts total control of a country, usually after seizing power by overthrowing the previous rulers in a coup. Military dictatorships are typically marked by brutal human rights abuses, such as killings, torture, and disappearances.
- Fred Frommer
- Military Dictatorship Definition and Characteristics
- Military Juntas
- Military vs. Civilian Dictatorships
- Examples of 20th Century Military Dictatorships
In a military dictatorship, military leaders exercise substantial or complete control of the people and functions of government. As an autocratic form of government, a military dictatorship may be ruled by either a single military strongman whose authority is unlimited or by a group of high-ranking military officers—a “military junta”—who can to so...
A military junta is a coordinated group of high-ranking military officers who exercise authoritarian or totalitarian rule over a country after taking power by force. Meaning “meeting” or “committee,” the term junta was first used about the Spanish military leaders who resisted Napoleon’s invasion of Spain in 1808 and later about the groups that hel...
In contrast to a military dictatorship, a civilian dictatorship is a form of autocratic government that does not draw its power directly from the armed forces. Unlike military dictatorships, civilian dictatorships do not have built-in access to an organized base of support like an army. Instead, civilian dictators take and hold on to power by contr...
Once common throughout Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East, the prevalence of military dictatorships has been declining since the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Unionand the end of the Cold War, it became harder for military regimes to seize power by using the threat of communism to gain the support of powerful Western democrac...
- Robert Longley
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. They are most often formed by military coups or by ...
8 de may. de 2024 · These caudillos, or aspiring military dictators, usually led a private army and tried to establish control over a territory before marching upon a weak national government. Antonio López de Santa Anna in Mexico and Juan Manuel de Rosas in Argentina are examples of such leaders.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
20 de mar. de 2019 · If military dictatorship is defined in the strictest sense as the rule of a junta or military officer who comes to power through a coup and then doesn’t hold elections to offer a veneer of...
- Eugénie Mérieau
9 de may. de 2024 · Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler and the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin were the leading examples of such modern totalitarian dictatorships.
Additionally, military dictatorships more quickly and peacefully transition to democracy than their non-military counterparts and frequently negotiate their withdrawal from power.Given the distinct natures of military dictatorships, research on military dictatorships and coups has resurged since 2000.
