# Military Council > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Military_Council > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Military_Council.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Council > Source revision: 1340041092 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) A '''military council''' is an approach to organization by a council with representatives from various bodies. The term "military council", also known as [council of war](/source/council_of_war), applied to organizational groupings of senior ranking officers in the European armies of the 19th century during operational planning, also refers to the practice retained in the [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union)'s [Red Army](/source/Red_Army) until 1947. As a proper noun term, it may refer to: * [Military Council (Russian Empire)](/source/Military_Council_(Russian_Empire)), a coordination body which operated under the [Ministry of War of the Russian Empire](/source/Ministry_of_War_of_the_Russian_Empire). * [Military Council (Georgia)](/source/Military_Council_(Georgia)), the [military junta](/source/military_junta) that couped the Georgian government in the [Georgian Civil War](/source/Georgian_civil_war_of_1991%E2%80%931993), and ruled from January 6–March 10, 1992 * [Military Council for Justice and Democracy](/source/Military_Council_for_Justice_and_Democracy), the supreme political body of Mauritania * [Military Council of National Salvation](/source/Military_Council_of_National_Salvation), a military group administering Poland during the period of martial law, 1981–1983 * [Revolutionary Military Council](/source/Revolutionary_Military_Council), the supreme military authority of Soviet Russia from 1918 to 1934 * [Transitional Military Council (1985)](/source/Transitional_Military_Council_(1985)), a council created to lead Sudan, lasted from April 1985 to April 1986 *[Transitional Military Council (2019)](/source/Transitional_Military_Council_(2019)), a council created to lead Sudan, lasted from April to August 2019 *[Transitional Military Council (Chad)](/source/Transitional_Military_Council_(Chad)), a council created to lead Chad after the death of president [Idriss Déby](/source/Idriss_D%C3%A9by), established April 2021 * [Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries](/source/Shura_Council_of_Benghazi_Revolutionaries), an Islamist coalition created in 2014 during the [Second Libyan Civil War](/source/Libyan_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%932020)) *One of the [Syrian Democratic Forces military councils](/source/Syrian_Democratic_Forces_military_councils), each of which unifies local units loyal to the [Syrian Democratic Forces](/source/Syrian_Democratic_Forces) in the context of the [Syrian Civil War](/source/Syrian_civil_war). *[Military Council for the Liberation of Syria](/source/Military_Council_for_the_Liberation_of_Syria), [Assadist](/source/Assadism) insurgent group in Syria ==References== {{reflist}} Category:Military organizational structures Category:Councils Category:Former disambiguation pages converted to set index articles {{SIA}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Military Council](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Council) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Council?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.