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n. (context politics English) A government that is lead by the military.
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A military government is generally any government that is administrated by military forces, whether this government is legal or not under the laws of the jurisdiction at issue, and whether this government is formed by natives or by an occupying power.
Types of military government include:
- Military occupation of acquired foreign territory and the administration thereof
- Martial law, temporary military rule of domestic territory
- Military dictatorship, an authoritarian government controlled by a military and its political designees, called a military junta when done extralegally
- Stratocracy, a government traditionally or constitutionally run by a military
Usage examples of "military government".
A hundred of them were already in the service of the Military Government of Paris.
One of his antagonists was Colonel Moses Hazen, a Canadian who had made a distinguished place for himself in the service of the colonies and had played a positive role in the military government of Montreal.
The praefect still exercised an uncontrolled authority over the civil and military government of the East.
At this important crisis, the military government of Thrace was exercised by Lupicinus and Maximus, in whose venal minds the slightest hope of private emolument outweighed every consideration of public advantage.
It is true that Khartoum is ruled today by a military government controlled by the National Islamic Front whose leader, Hassan el-Turabi, wishes to spread his version of fundamentalist Islam in Africa and the Middle East.
At the opera house we learn that after a military coup in the seventies, the military government decreed that the beautiful rose-colored building be painted&mdash.
As a result, you must think less than kind thoughts of the American military government for this district.
The real purpose was to embarrass and topple Prime Minister Koertsmann's party so the Defense Ministry could have an excuse for stepping in with a new military government headed by none other than Pieter De Vaal.
The real purpose was to embarrass and topple Prime Minister Koertsmann's party so the Defence Ministry could have an excuse for stepping in with a new military government headed by none other than Pieter De Vaal.