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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Another thing is the command structure doesn’t really allow an easy military coup.
Secret service couldn’t hold off a determined military assault of sufficient size, but should be a match for smaller elements without combined arms support.
Joint Chiefs of Staff (highest ranking members of each service) have no forces under them.
The Pentagon has a lot of bodies, but mostly not combat forces.
Northcom commander technically controls all combat forces in North America, but he is off in Colorado.
DC itself is mostly covered via national guard.
The major intelligence services (CIA, FBI) are independent of the military.
You’d need to bring in a lot of different entities to pull it off, and the more people are in on your plot, the higher chance it gets leaked.
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