Military dictatorship
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A military dictatorship is a form of government wherein the political power resides with the military; it is similar but not identical to a stratocracy, a state ruled directly by the military.
Like any dictatorship, a military dictatorship may be official or unofficial, and as a result may not actually qualify as stratocratic (some military dictatorships, like Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, are nominally subordinate to the civil government). Mixed forms also exist, where the military exerts a...
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