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:

    “Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.”
    —Mao Zedong (1893–1976)

    “There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless tree
    With beards askew, their eyes dull and wild
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