The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012

Parameters, Winter 1992-93, pp. 2-20. ^ | 1993 | CHARLES J. DUNLAP, JR.

[Godzilla]

The letter that follows takes us on a darkly imagined excursion into the future. A military coup has taken place in the United States--the year is 2012--and General Thomas E. T. Brutus, Commander-in-Chief of the Unified Armed Forces of the United States, now occupies the White House as permanent Military Plenipotentiary. His position has been ratified by a national referendum, though scattered disorders still prevail and arrests for acts of sedition are underway. A senior retired officer of the Unified Armed Forces, known here simply as Prisoner 222305759, is one of those arrested, having been convicted by court-martial for opposing the coup. Prior to his execution, he is able to smuggle out of prison a letter to an old War College classmate discussing the "Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012." In it, he argues that the coup was the outgrowth of trends visible as far back as 1992. These trends were the massive diversion of military forces to civilian uses, the monolithic unification of the armed forces, and the insularity of the military community. His letter survives and is here presented verbatim.

[gaijin]

Wow! In fact Parameters had exactly such an article about...11 years ago, I believe.

This might be the same author, in fact, although this is new.

[gaijin]

I take it back —same article as before, only I got the year wrong —it was 17 years ago...wow!

[FreedomPoster]

So book sales hype.

And reading the summaries of that book - there seems to be no “there”, there.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[PIF]

Well, it was the headlines at the time as I recall - was on sunday talk shows and BTW I said ALMOST.

[PIF]

What book? Just what I recall from that time.

[GAB-1955]

Can you imagine if Free Republic required that level of citation?

[Travis McGee]

Interesting, but very dated. "Overtaken by events." My third novel covers a military coup to restore the original Constitution, overthrowing the domestic enemies who have conducted a bogus constitutional convention, and given us an invalid "new constitution."

[FreedomPoster]

See the “To” post associated with my 2nd post - #36.

[Travis McGee]

Gracias para el pingo.

[PIF]

I just go by the events which happened in my life time - not some book by someone with an agenda. You should have been there at the time. Not to mention some rather highly classified stuff I was working with at the time - I doubt that reporter/writer has a clue about the existence of that material - if it exists any longer.

I go by what I lived through - you are free to go by some reporter's ideas of what they think happened, if you chose.

As for documentation:

1) you can only get a document if you know it exists and where it exists;

2) You can only get that document if it remains existent;

3) Documentation can be faked, especially when money/book sales/political agendas are in the equation.

[GeronL]

This would be a much lonlier, although interesting place. Would we have to call it the Free Academic Republic?

[WhirlwindAttack]

bump

[rickyc]

The page the lead article link leads to has been removed! How very convenient.

[Godzilla]

holy cow, thats from 2009

[Godzilla]

link to alternative site for whole article

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/parameters/dunlap2012.pdf