Quote: For any coup to be successful, those Washington bureaucrat generals would have to sway the loyalties of the majority of all those squad and platoon leaders to have even the slightest chance of success.
In August of 1945, after the two atomic bombs, after the soviet union attacked and after the Emperor had decided to surrender, staff officers of the Imperial Guard division, stationed in Tokyo at the Imperial Palace, tried to stage a coup to prevent the broadcast of the surrender recording. Those who knew what was going on led their troops into the palace itself and the troops followed the orders of their commanders. The rallying cry was roughly "we have to rescue the emperor from the evil men who have advised him to surrender."
The coup was crushed when troops who were not involved were summoned.
Soldiers obey orders.
