Task 8 Characteristic of Military Rules

TASK 8: FOUR CHARACTERISTIC OF MILITARY RULE

A military dictatorship is a form of government where the political power remains within the military where a state or country is ruled directly by the military. Different military regimes can be distinguished by the place the military hold in the decision making structure of the country or by the power that they handle. One of the four characteristic of military rule is military often has more cohesion and institutional structure than any other type of institutions of society. The military dictatorship was ruled by a junta or a committee that consist of several officers from military’s most senior leadership which representing the three service consist of army, navy and the air force who is the supreme role in the policy making. This military junta usually appoints a civilian cabinet to administer under its authority. arties and legislature are suppressed or only a single official party is permitted and they are often consider as nominal and subservient artefact of the military dictatorship.  !e"t, there is the presidential type in which the military act a ct as a supportive role rather than a creative or supreme role where the cabinet is form from civilian rather than military member  itself. #n many countries, the larger the military cabinet permit the civil service, a wider  authorisation of military received in running affairs. Another characteristic of military rule is that military force is used to organised violence against opponents and the key to military rule performance is to be obedience to orders with $uestion higher authority. %ilitary force use violence as the ultimate defence of state interests and against internal resistance. Due to the military’s rigid bureaucratic structure and its relative isolation from other social forces, the military is an intensely conservative structure. Although the military forces remain strongly hierarchical, there are two forces in particular  which which are are modi modify fyin ing g the the inte intern rnal al dyna dynami mics cs of the the milit military ary whic which h are incre increasi asing ng the the technologies content of modern war where instead of being mainly composed to the fighting troops, the military forces are structured around systems of advanced technology without $uestioning the commands that were given. The other forces was promoting changes in military forces toward civilian authority comes from soldiers soldiers who refuse to be submiss submissive ive which which will will breakd breakdown own the traditi traditiona onall social social structure will leads to collapsing between the e"tension of state power and authority modes of  organisation on one hand.

&owever, the higher the level of participation by a societ y’s population in military forces tend to reduces structured ine$uality in the society and it will likely to be lower with high  participation guerrilla warfare than with low participation conventional forces. %ilitary forces have two main roles in society which is defence of the state against foreign military threat and defence of the state against internal challenges.