Military Council

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:

    “My ancestors were all famous for military genius.”
    My Lady smiled graciously. “It often runs in families,” she remarked: “just as a love for pastry does.”
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    Parental attitudes have greater correlation with pupil achievement than material home circumstances or variations in school and classroom organization, instructional materials, and particular teaching practices.
    —Children and Their Primary Schools, vol. 1, ch. 3, Central Advisory Council for Education, London (1967)