page_title: Military dictatorship
section_title: Asia
hierarchical_section_title: Military dictatorship / Former cases / Asia
caption_attribution_description: English: Chiang Kai-shek 中文: 蔣中正Bân-lâm-gú: Tsiúnn Tiong-tsìng. 蔣中正العربية: شيانج كاي شيك
context_page_description: A military dictatorship is a dictatorship in which the military exerts complete or substantial control over political authority, and the dictator is often a high-ranked military officer.
  The reverse situation is to have civilian control of the military.
  Occasionally, military dictatorship is called khakistocracy. The term is a portmanteau word combining kakistocracy with khaki, the tan-green camouflage colour used in most modern army uniforms.
context_section_description:  Afghanistan (1978)
   Bangladesh (1975–1981; 1982–1990)
   Brunei (1962)
   Burma (Myanmar) (1962–1988; 1988–2011)
   Khmer Republic (1970–1975)
   China (Taiwan) (1928–1975)
   Indonesia (1967–1998)
   Iran (1953–1957; 1978–1979)
   Iraq (1933–1935; 1936; 1937–1938; 1941; 1949–1950; 1952–1953; 1958–1963; 1963-1968 1968–1979)
   Japan (1192–1867; 1931–1945)
   South Korea (1170–1270; 1961–1963; 1980)
   Kingdom of Laos (1959–1960; 1964)
   Lebanon (1988-1990)
   Maldives (1988–1989)
   Mongolia (1939–1952)
   Pakistan (1958–1969; 1969–1971; 1977–1988; 1999–2008)
   Philippines (1898, 1972–1981)
   Syria (1949; 1951–1954; 1961–1972)
   Thailand (1933; 1947–1957; 1959–1963; 1963–1973; 1977–1979; 2006–2008; 2014–2019)
   South Vietnam (1963–1967)
   North Yemen (1962–1967; 1974–1977; 1977–1978; 1978; 1978–1982)
caption: Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek in 1940
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