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:

    “There was somewhat military in his nature, not to be subdued, always manly and able, but rarely tender, as if he did not feel himself except in opposition. He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless tree
    With beards askew, their eyes dull and wild
    Twelve ragged men, the council of charity
    Wandering the face of the earth a fatherless child....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)