RE: Is the US ripe for a coup?
October 20, 2017 at 2:49 pm
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2017 at 3:12 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Infantry don't feel any particular fear or obedience towards law enforcement......but it wouldn't be a general we'd be supporting in that instance. We don't actually owe fealty to our commanding officers. He'd make his case to his men. It would be unlikely that we wouldn't be given the chance to sit it out if we wanted to...but unlikely that many would...and we'd probably go the route of fortification rather than counter assualt.
I can't think of a group of people who yearn for thermonuclear war less than grunts.
- I also have to add here...that no sane fbi agent would try to assault a position held by sufficient military forces.......I mean, if they got a bug up their ass and tried some shit to start with, they'd be quickly dissuaded.
also, what you're asking about now isn't a coup. No one in that situation is looking to remove the civilian authorities and put themselves in their place. It's just a nightmare scenario that has no happy outcome for anyone involved. No decent officer would take his men down with him in that one for trivial reasons, and good luck getting the support of the men if you're not a decent officer in that particular case. He'd just try to hold the facility until what he saw as the crisis was passed..and then plead clemency for his soldiers at court martial. This isn't an altogether unheard of narrative..though, obviously, nukes...so, lol.
I can't think of a group of people who yearn for thermonuclear war less than grunts.
- I also have to add here...that no sane fbi agent would try to assault a position held by sufficient military forces.......I mean, if they got a bug up their ass and tried some shit to start with, they'd be quickly dissuaded.
also, what you're asking about now isn't a coup. No one in that situation is looking to remove the civilian authorities and put themselves in their place. It's just a nightmare scenario that has no happy outcome for anyone involved. No decent officer would take his men down with him in that one for trivial reasons, and good luck getting the support of the men if you're not a decent officer in that particular case. He'd just try to hold the facility until what he saw as the crisis was passed..and then plead clemency for his soldiers at court martial. This isn't an altogether unheard of narrative..though, obviously, nukes...so, lol.
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