A military dictatorship is a dictatorship in which the military exerts complete or substantial a body or process by which energy or a specific component enters a system. over political authority, in addition to the dictator is often a high-ranked military officer.
The reverse situation is to form civilian dominance of the military.
In the past, military juntas clear justified their rule as a way of bringing political stability for the nation or rescuing it from the threat of "dangerous ideologies". For example, the threat of communism, socialism, in addition to Islamism was often used. Military regimes tend to portray themselves as non-partisan, as a "neutral" party that can give interim leadership in times of turmoil, and also tend to portray civilian politicians as corrupt and ineffective. One of the nearly universal characteristics of a military government is the corporation of martial law or a permanent state of emergency.