military regime
Generals in charge
A military regime is a government controlled by the armed forces rather than elected civilians.
Power typically comes through a coup, with generals or a junta ruling by decree: The military regime suspended the constitution and imposed curfews.
Such governments often suppress dissent and restrict civil liberties, though some eventually transition back to civilian rule.
- juntaPost-coup ruling clique
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- censorshipOfficial content restriction
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
- coup d'étatViolent government seizure
armed forces · brass hats · Francoist Spain · dictatorship · political prisoners · political purge · show trial · autocracy · underground resistance · propaganda · human rights abuses · generalissimo · surveillance · night raids · martial law · centralization · civil disobedience · curfews
- military rulejunta, army rule, martial law, coup leader, strongman
- militarysoldiers, army, troops, officers, navy
- social systemspolitical systems, capitalism, feudalism, economic systems, socialism
- nonstate actorsinsurgent, rebel group, guerrilla, paramilitary, mercenary
- Goryeoceladon, woodblock printing, Mongol invasions, Samguk Yusa
- Iranian Militaryarmed forces, commanders, generals, soldiers, defense minister
military regimedemocracy
Rule by the people
democratic government · liberal democracy · parliamentary democracy · constitutional democracy · representative democracy
military regimefree elections
Uncoerced public choosing of representatives
military regimeliberal democracy
Rights-based elected governance
free society · open society · civil society · constitutional order · free state
military, regime, militia, militant, militarism, militaristic, militarize, militarized, militarization