Why do generals attempting to coup always storm the palace? What happens next? Why do ordinary soldiers follow them? Are they in on the plot?
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They don’t always storm the palace, but the first step in claiming to be “in charge” is to remove the people currently in charge.
People attempting a coup often don’t even have the full support of the majority of the army, so it’s important to act swifltly before the Head of state declares them traitor and mobilize loyalists.
As an exemple of an alternative to “storming the palace” , there’s the attempted coup against the King of Morroco . Two jets left an airforce base and opened fire on the Royal plane as it was coming back from France. They (foolishly) stopped their attack once the plane radioed the king was dead.
It was a ruse, the plane made an emergency landing, they came back and strafed the airport.. But the game was already up and the Army was already moving to encircle the airforce base.
The Air Force general “commited suicide” by 10 shots in the back.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Moroccan_coup_attempt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Moroccan_coup_attempt)
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