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CHARLES J. DUNLAP, JR.
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in 1992 the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff held a "Strategy Essay
Competition."
The winner was a National War College student paper entitled, "The
Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012." Authored by Colonel
Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. the paper
is a well documented, "darkly imagined
excursion into the future." The ostensibly fictional work is written
from the perspective of an imprisoned senior military officer about to
be executed for opposing the military takeover of America, a coup
accomplished through "legal" means. The essay makes the point that the
coup was "the outgrowth of trends visible as far back as 1992,"
including "the massive diversion of military forces to civilian uses,"
particularly law enforcement.
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I skimmed the
first few pages and usually get bored and move on. After 4 pages and
read with a bit more intent and found this worth passing on.
With due credit to
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Tom Smith
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Interesting. Key premise seems to be circumvention of Posse Commitatus. I doubt it would happen under Obie's watch, because the solution to the most immediate National Security Threat would be to ride his ass out of D.C. (and the country) on a rail.
ReplyDeleteOTOH, his head seems to be so far up his rectum, that might not occur to him.
I didn't get very far into it before I read "the military exists to support and defend the government, not be the government". Isn't the oath to defend the constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic?
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I'm all for a military coup, and the return to the Constitution as law of the land.
ReplyDeleteThey just found Rodney King dead ! I'm so sad ; ) > SMIBSID
ReplyDeletecmblake9: That statement was completely self-contradictory.
ReplyDeleteOnce you have made your omelet, those eggs are gone forever.
I'm with Ignore Amos. My oath was to support and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic. If that includes the United States Government, well, so be it.
ReplyDeleteNear as I can tell, although I've been retired 22 years now, nobody ever released me from my oath.
Pvt-Cdr(SS) MichigammeDave
Dave, I don't recall seeing any such release in my discharge papers either.
ReplyDeleteWe're just not required to do it 24/7/365 anymore.
Volunteered for the Barn Army "just because."
It seems to me that my discharge never said anything about me being released form the oath that I took. Therefore I guess that we are still duty bound to follow it in all cases until relieved.
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