Talk:Military dictatorship

5/1 Revision

Mostly I cleaned up grammar and miscellaneous wording stuff. However, I did delete the sentence:
Few Communist regimes are military dictatorships, and controlling the military so that it cannot challenge the party has been a persistent concern of these regimes.
Not because it was innacurate or controversial, but because it is basically repeated later in the article and it destroys the flow of the article where it was.
--Xinoph 23:03, May 1, 2004 (UTC)

Latin America and Cold War

The end of the Cold War didn't had much to do with the end of military dictatorships in Latin America. By the time Gorbachev started his government, there weren't that many dictators in Latin America and the fact the remaining few became democracies had a lot more to do with internal problems than external. For example, in Brazil the slow democratization process started way back in the 70s.

Possible false info?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dictatorship#Current_cases

Did something happen recently to Canada, or is this info false?

Rename or rewrite?

This article is titled "Military dictatorship" ("dictatorship" usually being defined as a type of autocracy (rule by one)), but the way it is defined in the lede includes "military juntas", an oligarchic (rule by few) form of government. It seems to me that the article should either be renamed "Military regime", or be edited to exclude military juntas. ZFT (talk) 01:43, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Requested move 8 April 2026

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. Not the same concept, and there's already an article at the proposed new title. (non-admin closure) {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 21:13, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

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Military dictatorship → Military government – Redundant Crucabuloso (talk) 20:31, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose since Military Government can mean various things. For example, a democratic country could put an occupied foreign country under a military government. This wouldn't necessary equal a dictatorship. Military governments are also just a wide and diverse topic. It's a bit of a cop out but here's what the page for military government says:

"Types of military government include:

Military occupation of acquired foreign territory and the administration thereof

Martial law, temporary military rule of domestic territory

Military dictatorship, an authoritarian government controlled by a military and its political designees, called a military junta when done extralegally

Military junta, a government led by a committee of military leaders

Stratocracy, a government traditionally or constitutionally run by a military

Military democracy, a war-based society that practices democracy. With an elected and removable general as supreme chief, a council of elders and a popular assembly."

That's more than just a dictatorship. Sunnyediting99 (talk) 02:01, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose A military dictatorship is always a military government, but a military government is not always a military dictatorship. This is a change in scope that does not befit a move, especially of a Good Article. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 06:14, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose. As said above, the current title describes the scope better then the proposed new name, and it's a good topic and has been a good article in every sense. If there is enough good sourced material to describe the topic military government apart from as a subtopic of disctatorships, then create that article... but that would mean that it isn't a subtopic of this one. Andrewa (talk) 05:26, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose Military junta exists. Wasting time is still my passion (talk) 09:21, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

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