What the generals need to worry about is if the troops will fire upon them if they are foolish enough to give those orders.
When the Chinese attacked Tienanmen Square in 1989, they brought in troops from the countryside, who didn’t even know about what had been going there for the past month. They knew if they used troops from Beijing, they probably would have defected over to the protestors’ side.
Obamao is already worried about the troops. He had the bolts removed from the Marines’ rifles at the inaugural address. He’s a craven coward and a pervert, a slap in our faces by the puppet masters who created him and mounted him over us to be our destructive tyrant.
I live in the Fort Hood area of Texas and have many friends that are retired and active military. Some are noncoms and some are commissioned officers up to the rank of colonel. I have asked them if they will follow orders to fire on American Citizens. They all said, "no!"
I then asked what would happen. The answer was, somen will simply refuse, some would desert. More importantly, a colonel with many years of combat experience said the noncoms and enlisted would follow an officer they trust in fighting such illegal orders.
You can purge the Army at the top but you can not purge the Army of all its patriots. The Army were the "good guys" in the past and the present and will be the good guys in the future.
I invite posts on this subject from those recently in the services or those still in the service. That will tell us more than all our speculation. I trust the Army.