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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I think the size of the military itself is a deterrent. Any one branch of the military could defend the country against the other. Each branch has elements of the other branch.
Also, US leadership system is built on constant change. Every leadership position (maybe except supreme court) has a built in expiration date for the person in charge to force change and to force the system to be designed such that the institution functions independent of any one particular person’s influence.
A lot of other countries look at US’ constant change of the persons in charge and think it’s nuts but there are very good reason for it.
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