Military Council may refer to:
- Military Council for Justice and Democracy, the supreme political body of Mauritania
- Military Council of National Salvation, a military dictatorship quasi-government administering Poland during the martial law
- Revolutionary Military Council, the supreme military authority of Soviet Russia
- Transitional Military Council, a period in the history of Sudan
- Military council was an organisational grouping of senior ranking officers in the European armies of the 19th century during operational planning. It also refers to the practice retained in the Red Army until 1947.
Famous quotes containing the words military and/or council:
“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“Daughter to that good Earl, once President
Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
Who lived in both, unstain’d with gold or fee,
And left them both, more in himself content.
Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
Broke him, as that dishonest victory
At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
Kill’d with report that old man eloquent;—”
—John Milton (1608–1674)