A Central Military Commission or National Defense Commission is an organisation typical of socialist one-party states espousing communism, responsible for supervising the nation's armed forces.
Examples of existing CMCs can be found for example in China, North Korea and Vietnam.
- Central Military Commission (China)
- Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea
- Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam
- National Military Council defunct Chinese KMT committee
- Central Military Commission (Chinese Soviet Republic) (defunct)
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