The US military is currently the most powerful in the world. Is there anything in place, besides soldiers’/CO’s individual allegiances to stop a military coup?
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To have a coup, you’d have to gather enough loyal soldiers to your cause while keeping it secret from everybody else. In a military like the US – and in an intelligence-gathering state like the US – this just simply isn’t possible because of the scale of it.
For instance, look up the FEAR militia – a group of between 5 and 11 mainly Army and recently-discharged men who sought to overthrow the Government, assassinate Obama etc.. They started stockpiling guns, which caught the attention of the ATF. After their two murders (which were performed to try and keep their scheme secret), the Georgia Bureau of Investigation were questioning them within a day. The GBI had access to their texts, which were very suspicious. The ATF coordinated with them, and the whole thing fell apart very quickly; pretty much all of them broke within minutes and told the investigators everything.
There’s no way you could build a big enough group of people without someone inside blabbing or someone outside catching on.
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