In light of the Myanmmar military detaining leaders in the country, I wonder: what stops the military from turning their guns around towards the government or citizens, especially if they effectively hold power as a legitimate threat towards civillians?
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There are a lot of different factors that go into preventing this, but the biggest one is that a population ruled by the military under threat of death is effectively a population of slaves, and the military generally comes from that same population. so most militaries are not going to be willing to enslave their own population for long periods of time.
this is one of the main reasons you want to make sure the composition of your military is always pretty similar to the composition of your civilian population. if you have one minority group that makes up a disproportionately large group of the military, they are more likely to attempt to coup. That is what the previous president of the United States was hoping what happened.
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