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:

    Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No—we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.
    Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

    I haven’t seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were asked this week about one of their biggest benefactors, Philip Morris, and its requests that they lobby the New York City Council on the company’s behalf, the pas de deux of self- justification was so painstakingly choreographed that it constituted a performance all by itself.
    Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)