Civil control of the military

Civilian control of the military - principle that civilian political leadership exercises ultimate authority over decisions of military strategy. Article “Civil control of the military” in English Wikipedia has 62.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 31 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.98 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Civil control of the military”, its content was written by 164 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 381 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 194 times in English Wikipedia and cited 717 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #36075 in November 2013
• Global: #36105 in March 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #22750 in February 2014
• Global: #14395 in November 2008

There are 13 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Civil control of the military		62.7936
2	Japanese (ja) 文民統制		37.2402
3	Persian (fa) کنترل غیرنظامی نیروهای نظامی		37.0525
4	Spanish (es) Control civil de los militares		32.6577
5	Ukrainian (uk) Цивільний контроль над збройними силами		23.9318
6	Portuguese (pt) Controle civil sobre as forças armadas		16.8624
7	Arabic (ar) السيطرة المدنية على الجيش		11.252
8	Korean (ko) 문민통제		10.6755
9	Finnish (fi) Armeijan siviilivalvonta		10.3366
10	Thai (th) พลเรือนคุมทหาร		8.5967

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Civil control of the military" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 文民統制		1 357 434
2	English (en) Civil control of the military		1 166 124
3	Polish (pl) Cywilna kontrola nad siłami zbrojnymi		47 917
4	Korean (ko) 문민통제		23 861
5	Arabic (ar) السيطرة المدنية على الجيش		20 247
6	Italian (it) Controllo civile dei militari		11 575
7	Ukrainian (uk) Цивільний контроль над збройними силами		10 345
8	Finnish (fi) Armeijan siviilivalvonta		8 236
9	Persian (fa) کنترل غیرنظامی نیروهای نظامی		8 022
10	Thai (th) พลเรือนคุมทหาร		7 389

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Civil control of the military" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Civil control of the military		4 276
2	Japanese (ja) 文民統制		2 446
3	Korean (ko) 문민통제		160
4	Polish (pl) Cywilna kontrola nad siłami zbrojnymi		96
5	Arabic (ar) السيطرة المدنية على الجيش		83
6	Spanish (es) Control civil de los militares		75
7	Thai (th) พลเรือนคุมทหาร		68
8	Persian (fa) کنترل غیرنظامی نیروهای نظامی		52
9	Ukrainian (uk) Цивільний контроль над збройними силами		44
10	Portuguese (pt) Controle civil sobre as forças armadas		31

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Civil control of the military" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Civil control of the military		164
2	Japanese (ja) 文民統制		144
3	Arabic (ar) السيطرة المدنية على الجيش		13
4	Italian (it) Controllo civile dei militari		9
5	Korean (ko) 문민통제		9
6	Finnish (fi) Armeijan siviilivalvonta		8
7	Polish (pl) Cywilna kontrola nad siłami zbrojnymi		8
8	Persian (fa) کنترل غیرنظامی نیروهای نظامی		7
9	Spanish (es) Control civil de los militares		6
10	Ukrainian (uk) Цивільний контроль над збройними силами		6

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Civil control of the military" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) السيطرة المدنية على الجيش		0
2	English (en) Civil control of the military		0
3	Spanish (es) Control civil de los militares		0
4	Persian (fa) کنترل غیرنظامی نیروهای نظامی		0
5	Finnish (fi) Armeijan siviilivalvonta		0
6	Italian (it) Controllo civile dei militari		0
7	Japanese (ja) 文民統制		0
8	Korean (ko) 문민통제		0
9	Malay (ms) Kawalan awam ke atas tentera		0
10	Polish (pl) Cywilna kontrola nad siłami zbrojnymi		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Civil control of the military" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 文民統制		202
2	Ukrainian (uk) Цивільний контроль над збройними силами		195
3	English (en) Civil control of the military		194
4	Korean (ko) 문민통제		31
5	Thai (th) พลเรือนคุมทหาร		16
6	Persian (fa) کنترل غیرنظامی نیروهای نظامی		15
7	Malay (ms) Kawalan awam ke atas tentera		14
8	Arabic (ar) السيطرة المدنية على الجيش		13
9	Portuguese (pt) Controle civil sobre as forças armadas		11
10	Italian (it) Controllo civile dei militari		9

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic السيطرة المدنية على الجيش
en	English Civil control of the military
es	Spanish Control civil de los militares
fa	Persian کنترل غیرنظامی نیروهای نظامی
fi	Finnish Armeijan siviilivalvonta
it	Italian Controllo civile dei militari
ja	Japanese 文民統制
ko	Korean 문민통제
ms	Malay Kawalan awam ke atas tentera
pl	Polish Cywilna kontrola nad siłami zbrojnymi
pt	Portuguese Controle civil sobre as forças armadas
th	Thai พลเรือนคุมทหาร
uk	Ukrainian Цивільний контроль над збройними силами

Best Rank

English: #22750 02.2014

Global: #14395 11.2008

Best Rank

English: #36075 11.2013

Global: #36105 03.2004

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