America's military coup

Donald Rumsfeld has a new war on his hands - the US officer corps has turned on the government
Sidney Blumenthal-UK Guardian

"One high-level military strategist told me that Rumsfeld is "detested", and that "if there's a sentiment in the army it is: Support Our Troops, Impeach Rumsfeld".

In 1992, General Colin Powell, chairman of the joint chiefs, awarded the prize for his strategy essay competition at the National Defence University to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Dunlap for The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012. His cautionary tale imagined an incapable civilian government creating a vacuum that drew a competent military into a coup disastrous for democracy. The military, of course, is bound to uphold the constitution. But Dunlap wrote: "The catastrophe that occurred on our watch took place because we failed to speak out against policies we knew were wrong. It's too late for me to do any more. But it's not for you."

The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012 is today circulating among top US military strategists."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1215613,00.html

The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012

CHARLES J. DUNLAP, JR.
The letter that follows takes us on a darkly imagined excursion into the future. A military coup has taken place in the United States--the year is 2012--and General Thomas E. T. Brutus, Commander-in-Chief of the Unified Armed Forces of the United States, now occupies the White House as permanent Military Plenipotentiary. His position has been ratified by a national referendum, though scattered disorders still prevail and arrests for acts of sedition are underway. A senior retired officer of the Unified Armed Forces, known here simply as Prisoner 222305759, is one of those arrested, having been convicted by court-martial for opposing the coup. Prior to his execution, he is able to smuggle out of prison a letter to an old War College classmate discussing the "Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012." In it, he argues that the coup was the outgrowth of trends visible as far back as 1992. These trends were the massive diversion of military forces to civilian uses, the monolithic unification of the armed forces, and the insularity of the military community. His letter survives and is here presented verbatim.

It goes without saying (I hope) that the coup scenario above is purely a literary device intended to dramatize my concern over certain contemporary developments affecting the armed forces, and is emphatically not a prediction. -- The Author

"Commentator James Fallows expressed the new thinking in an August 1991 article in Atlantic magazine. Musing on the contributions of the military to American society, Fallows wrote: "I am beginning to think that the only way the national government can do anything worthwhile is to invent a security threat and turn the job over to the military." He elaborated on his reasoning:

According to our economic and political theories, most agencies of the government have no special standing to speak about the general national welfare. Each represents a certain constituency; the interest groups fight it out. The military, strangely, is the one government institution that has been assigned legitimacy to act on its notion of the collective good. "National defense" can make us do things--train engineers, build highways--that long-term good of the nation or common sense cannot."

http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/1992/dunlap.htm

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Clinton decimated the military? The Clinton's hated the Military? I heard the soldiers cheering for Dumsfeld in Baghdad yesterday? At least that's the line of sh!t Bushco would like us to believe. I guess the officers' loyalty ends at being ordered into suicidal "wars" against pahntom enemies, especially when the "Commander in chief" says stupid things like "Bring 'em on".

Lots of hard questions and few answers.
I'll post the article here in LBN.

...will be about as successful as the German High Command in getting rid of Hitler.

The ruling corporate elites, the energy industry, and the defense contracting industry are totally behind their puppet. The civilian leadership of the Pentagon who are ideologues committed to a bizarre ideology of imperial dominance, xenophobia and hatred of "human rights." To them, the rule of law is a fiction maintained for the masses.

Examples: The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs demonstrates a deliberate ignorance of the Geneva Conventions by denying there have been violations. The Vice Chairman admits he saw nothing wrong with an incompetent plan to invade and occupy Iraq and postures as a hero defending his equally incompetent ideologue boss, Wolfowitz.

Majorities in Congress see no evil and eagerly reassure the incompetent extremists that Billions are forthcoming, with no strings attached.

On edit: the coup already took place in Dec. 2000, it was a fascist coup not a military coup. The resistance of high level military officers is based upon tradition and institutional loyalty. Traditions and conventional institutions, the foundation of the Republic, are to be circumvented by tricks, schemes, bureaucratic manipulations, propaganda, disinformation, 911, anthrax, Patriot Act, Homeland Security, the fraudulent Iraq war, Gitmo, unaccountable voting machines, civilian contractors interfering with the chain of command, etc., etc.

ABSOLUTELY!

It was more than the "declared" margin of victory for that detestable man whose name I cannot even bring myself to type so I will type *. There went the election.

One high-level military strategist told me that Rumsfeld is "detested", and that "if there's a sentiment in the army it is: Support Our Troops, Impeach Rumsfeld".

But don't let Chim-Chim off the hook either.

and the highly politicized officer corps since I got my first computer in 2000, I was banned for discussing this at another Democratic anti-Bush site, that's how I wound up here.

Dunlap is the author of RPMA/Revolution in Political and Military Affairs this was an Occasional Paper presented at Maxwell AFB Air University USAF INSS in October 1996-please note the extreme politicization evident imo in the beginning paragraph-the hatred of President Clinton by the RW in OUR MILITARY is the opening salvo of this Occasional Paper which was written in the form of a future address of US military officers after the coup of 2012.

RPMA/Revolution in Political and Military Affairs
http://www.guerrillacampaign.com/coup.htm

I knew from the response of the USAF on 9-11-2001 that something was seriously wrong, (chemtrails started during the late 90's) it's the stuff that is in the bowels of national security having influence on today, real Nazis, organized crime, mercenaries and cults-that isn't America-the rallying point is OUR Constitution which is US-we've been betrayed imo but they've failed overall.
NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.