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Is civil control of the military necessarily good?

Reading about Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his purge following the attempted 2016 coup, I have just wondered whether too much civil control of the military could in some circumstances cause problems. Many authoritarian or illiberal leaders have faced opposition rather than support from the military. Thus a ruler seeking greater power and less democracy could potentially want to make the military less independent and less able to criticise the government. Luokehao (talk) 06:01, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It depends whether the government has the consent of the people. "Civil control" really means with the consent of citizens, where citizens are free to express their opinions against the government or elect them out of office. When these conditions are not met, the civilian government represents the citizens only nominally and not in practice. --Happyseeu (talk) 05:07, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]