Coup D'Etat in the United States: Impossible or Improbable?

Abstract

This thesis looks comparatively at the social and intra-military conditions that have led to coups d'etat in other countries, in order to evaluate whether a coup d'etat could occur in the United States. This thesis also creates a fictional scenario for this possibility.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA326350

Entities

People

  • Tung Ho

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Civil War
  • Electronic Mail
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Science
  • National Governments
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Political Systems
  • Recreation
  • Second World War
  • Sociopolitics
  • Students
  • United States
  • United States Naval Academy
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.