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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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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The leader of the military is the President (Commander in Chief). In order for a coup to work you would need the entire military disobeying their highest ranking officer, not just one or two senior officials, as the President outranks everyone. This is theoretically possible if a president were to just absolutely lose it however the bar is super high.

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